Workshops

Workshop I
February 2006
Venue: Centre for African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The first workshop of the network will serve two purposes. Firstly, four main presentations will discuss major themes of the network: the restructuring of the Nigerian state in a comparative African perspective, the changing relationship between state and society, and changing forms of political and social organization, not the least in the urban areas. Secondly, the workshop aims at mapping current research on Nigeria in the Nordic countries. This will be done through brief individual presentations of the participants in the network

Workshop II
January 2007
Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden

This workshop will consist of a number of detailed case-studies of particular aspects of state and society in Nigeria. Main issues will be the politics of natural resources, the growing politicisation of ethnicity and religion, the growth of political violence, popular cultural practices in the interface of state and society, the political role of new media, and youth politics.