The book provides novel perspectives towards conceptualisation of African Potentials. It explores diverse and dynamic aspects of linguistic communications in Africa, ranging from convivial multilingual practices to literal and musical arts. The book reflects the diversity and ever-changing dynamism in the African sociolinguistic sphere, that is, metalinguistic discourse in East Africa, sociolinguistic dynamism in Angola, conflict reconciliation speech performed in Ethiopia, and syncretic urban linguistic code called Sheng in Kenya. The volume also explores multi-dimensional relationships between literary arts and the society by investigating such topics as traditional Swahili poetry, publication of children books in Benin, and transformation and reconstruction of Yoruba popular music. The book elucidates dynamic process of creation through mixing of traditional and foreign elements of culture.
In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisati…
The term ‘African Potentials’ refers to the knowledge, systems, practices, ideas and values created and implemented in African societies that are expected to contribute…
In searching for the potential that lies in African societies, the chapters of this volume consider relationships between knowledge, education and social structure from multiple an…
This volume addresses two primary research concerns: first, considering extraversion (or extroversion) as a term for characterizing a region that is “mobilizing resources fro…
Hidenori Harada（Associate Professor, CAAS）and his research group won the WET Excellent Paper from Japan Society on Water Environment. The award is for Viet Hoang Nguyen, Van T…
CAAS Professor Emeritus Mitsuo Ichikawa won the 36th Daido Life Foundation Award for Area Studies. This award is for “A Comprehensive Area Study on the Coexistence of Indigenous Pe…
To all graduates of Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) who specialized in research on Africa The Center for African Area Studies (CAAS) publishes the Kyoto …
Yukiko Kondo (Assistant Professor, CAAS) received the 16th incentive award at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology held on May 29, 2021. The awa…
Seiji Nakao (Assistant Professor, CAAS) was awarded the Young Researcher Prize of the Japan Association for African Studies at its 58th Annual Meeting on 22 May 2021. The prize was…