Inquiry that changes the Sahel, and the world.
From drought-tolerant cereals to Sahelian history, solar microgrids to maternal health — FUBK scholars tackle the questions that matter for our region and our century.
Seven themes, one intellectual community.
Arid-Lands Agriculture
Drought-tolerant cereals, rainwater harvesting, integrated crop-livestock systems, pastoralist livelihoods.
Energy & Climate
Solar microgrids, biomass, low-carbon construction, Sahel climate adaptation modelling.
Public & Maternal Health
Maternal mortality in rural Kebbi, vaccine uptake, community health workers, nutrition & under-fives.
Sahelian Humanities
Hausa and Arabic manuscripts, pre-colonial statecraft, Islamic jurisprudence, oral history of the Sokoto region.
Governance & Peace
Local-government finance, farmer-herder conflict, electoral administration, security-sector reform.
Education in Nigeria
Teacher quality, girl-child education, multilingual pedagogy, the basic-education curriculum.
Digital Futures
Low-resource NLP for Hausa, AI in agriculture, digital public services, cybersecurity for public bodies.
KEBBI-RICE: Breeding a grain for a changing climate.
A ten-year programme in the Faculty of Agriculture has produced two new rice cultivars adapted to the shorter, more erratic rains of the modern Sahel.
Fourteen research units across campus.
Working with institutions in 19 countries.
- University of Ibadan
- Ahmadu Bello University
- Bayero University Kano
- University of Ghana
- Université de Dakar
- University of Niamey
- IITA Ibadan
- Africa Rice Centre
- Cairo University
- University of Khartoum
- Makerere University
- University of Cape Town
- American University in Cairo
- King Saud University
- SOAS, University of London
- Humboldt-Universität Berlin
- Wageningen University
- University of Edinburgh
- Kyoto University
- Universiti Malaya
- Cornell University
- Columbia University