French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nigeria) in collaboration with the Department of International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ibadan present a roundtable on the theme "Nigeria as an Emerging Power ?"

The lead paper will be presented by Prof. Daniel Bach*, CNRS, Emile Durkheim Centre for Comparative Political Science and Sociology, University of Bordeaux.

Date : September 20, 2011
Venue : Drapper's Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
Time : 9.30 am prompt

The roundtable will be chaired by Prof. Amadu Sesay, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife as Prof. Isaac O. Albert, director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan will welcome participants to the Institute.

Discussants will include the following distinguished scholars :
- Prof. Bolade Eyinla, UNILORIN, Ilorin
- Prof. Antonia Simbine, NISER, Ibadan
- Prof. Solomon Akinboye, UNILAG, Lagos
- Prof. Bayo Okunade, UI, Ibadan
- Dr. Osita Agbu, NIIA, Lagos
- Dr. Charles Ukeje, OAU, Ile-Ife

* Daniel Bach is a Director of research of the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) at the Emile Durkheim Centre - Comparative Political Science and Sociology, University of Bordeaux. He is also a professor at Sciences Po Bordeaux. He holds the Diplôme d'Habiliation à Diriger des Recherches (Bordeaux I University), a D.Phil from Oxford University, a DES from Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) and a BA from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Grenoble II University. He has taught at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife-Ife (Nigeria), the University of Montréal, ISCTE in Lisbon, Boston University and Ritsumeikan University and the LUISS Guido Carli, Rome. A former Director of Centre d'Etude d'Afrique noire of Bordeaux, he was a Deakin Fellow at St Antony's College (Oxford University), a Fulbright scholar (Boston University) and a Fellow of the Indian Council for Social Studies Research (Jawaharlal Nehru University). He has published on Nigerian federalism, the foreign policies of Nigeria and South Africa, regional organisations and regionalisation processes in Africa, as well as on relations between France, the European Union, China, India and Africa.