Studies on child migration often focus on single narratives: children as accompanying minors, as ‘luggage,’ or as a source of anxiety for adults. While recent research …
This seminar has been jointly organized by the African Studies Center (ASC), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Center for African Area Studies (CAAS), Kyoto University since 2017. Under this arrangement, visiting researchers at each center visit and present their research at the other center, in order to deepen interaction between researchers engaged in African studies at both universities. When Tokyo University of Foreign Studies is the host, the seminar is co-hosted as ASC Seminar; when Kyoto University is the host, it is co-hosted with KUASS (Kyoto University African Studies Seminar). See the records of the seminars at the archive page.
The Nyungwe forest, South West of Rwanda, was erected into a national park, protected in 2005 under the law n° 22/2005 on November 21, 2005. Up until then the 1209 square km was re…
This paper will outline the evolution of the World Heritage Centre criteria for listing world heritage and some of the institutional and political considerations that informed it e…
The now growing body of literature on industrialization on Africa has not only shown that industrial development remains weak; it has also produced a consistent list of challenges …
This seminar aims to provide an understanding of global health in Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective through the outcomes of public health, midwifery, and environmental e…
In different parts of Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular, people maintained immense indigenous ecological knowledge and its management often distinctive to them. Forest m…
Being the humanitarian catastrophe that considered to be one of the world’s most neglected crises, the Chad basin refugee and IDPs situation has been egregiously overlooked while a…
Even though the genesis of the pan African idea and movement is traceable to the mid-19th century in the Americas, the cut-off point of my presentation is 1945. After the 4th pan A…
Agroecosystems in south-eastern Cameroon contain significant floristic diversity which is vital for subsistence and cash income of local communities. However, this agrobiodiversity…
By confirming that the TICAD has been largely reinvented since 2008 the presentation will examine the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) content of the process through an assessment …