This note is published by IFRA through the « Observatoire de recherche sur l’Afrique de l’Est et centrale » in partnership with DGRIS and IFRI. Mwongela Kamencu and Dr. Chloé Josse-Durand, “Kenya’s 2022 Election:...
Under the apartheid regime, South Africa’s Mitchell’s Plain, situated close to Cape Town, was devised as a “model township.” A cutting-edge urban planning scheme would provide middle-class Coloured people—evacuated from their homes by racialised...
Features articles on the MAMBO! THE IFRA NOTEBOOK || IFRA’S BLOG || Street Vendors Associations in Kenya: Political or Economic Resource? BY NATHAN KARIUKI · PUBLISHED 24/08/2022 Street vending plays a crucial role in the urban economy...
DÉSORDRE COLONIAL DANS LA PROPRIÉTÉ. UNE HISTOIRE LACUSTRE DU ROYAUME DU BUGANDA (1885-1925), Henri Médard. Paris, Nairobi: Africae, Coll. “Africae Monographs”, 2022 (FRENCH). Cet ouvrage porte sur les conséquences multiples de l’imposition coloniale de...
IFRA’s latest volume is now out: “Kenya in motion 2000-2020” edited by Marie-Aude Fouéré, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Christian Thibon. The volume was published in 2021 by AFRICAE publishers. Paperback copies will soon be available...
DÉSORDRE COLONIAL DANS LA PROPRIÉTÉ. UNE HISTOIRE LACUSTRE DU ROYAUME DU BUGANDA (1885-1925), Henri Médard. Paris, Nairobi: Africae, Coll. “Africae Monographs”, 2022 (FRENCH). Cet ouvrage porte sur les conséquences multiples de l’imposition coloniale de...
Latest issues – see also the website of IFRA’s journal Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est/The East African Review [CAE N°57] 2022 COVID-19 / VARIA For short articles on COVID-19 in Kenya, see also the...
TANZANIE 16/11/2020 Zanzibar, élections 2020 : Stratégie de l’écrasement et de la terreur Marie-Aude FOUÉRÉ. Mambo! Vol. XVII (5), 2020. Depuis le retour du multipartisme en 1992, aucune élection générale à Zanzibar n’avait connu un tel niveau...
Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est / The East African Review 54, 2020 Revues en luttes. Why French Academic Journals are Protesting By the collective of journals joined in struggle Olivier Provini, Cédric Mayrargue et...
The French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) has been active in East Africa since 1977; its offices are in Nairobi, Kenya.
Research covers Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and eastern DRC.
IFRA promotes research in all the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, mainly geography, political science, anthropology and history. Archaeology missions are also supported.
IFRA works under the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
It is part of the ‘French Research Centers Abroad’ network, called UMIFRE.
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