The statement added that the new centre has also been granted a building infrastructure to the tune of N1 billion by TETFund.
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The appointee, Senayon Olaoluwa, a professor, also served as the pioneer head of Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the institute.According to a statement issued by the centre, the appointment “is with effect from 1 March, in the first instance,” noting that the new director has a history of leading institutions that are focused on promoting diaspora studies, and Africans’ rights and privileges.
The statement noted that the new Diaspora Centre signifies “not only the expansion of African Studies at the University of Ibadan but its rootedness in anchoring the dream of the African Union that had long located the Diaspora as Africa’s sixth region.”, the new centre is reported to have received the sum of N250 million as its take-off grant, which is targeted at conducting research “towards establishing a credible database for the Nigerian Diaspora, among others.
“Therefore, using the theory, “extalgia” by Olaoluwa, the consortium comprising scholars from the College of Public Health, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, will be investigating “Emigration and Mental Health Outcomes among the Left-behind Families in Ibadan, Nigeria”.
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