【Update on Feb. 25】We're afraid to inform you that this event will be postponed due to the Coronavirus situation in current Japan. The new date hasn't been fixed yet, but we will announce it on this website as soon as it's fixed. International Center for Japan Studies will conduct a workshop on the possibility of Japan studies toward next generation on March 5 and 6, 2020. It is jointly organized with African Studies Center - TUFS. In the event, they will invite Prof. Scarlett Cornelissen from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She also has a close relationship with our center, and we invited her as a speaker of ASC Seminar in October 2018. The event is open to public, and no pre-registration is required. 【Seminar】 ◆Title: Japanese firms and their investments and internationalization in Africa ◆Speaker: Prof. Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ◆Date & Time: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 3:00 pm - ◆Venue: Project Space (3rd Floor, AGORA Global), Tokyo Unviersity of Foreign Studies 【International Workshop】 ◆Date & Time: Friday, March 6th, 2020 3:00 pm - ◆Venue: Project Space (3rd Floor, AGORA Global), Tokyo Unviersity of Foreign Studies ◆Programme:Speaker 1: Prof. Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)"Asia Area Studies in the African context" Speaker 2: Mr. Kei Yoshizawa (Japan International Cooperation Agency - JICA)"日本とアフリカの開発協力、その歴史と今後の展望 (Development cooperation between Japan and Africa: Its history and future perspective)" The following information is both for the seminar and the workshop. ◆Language: Japanese and English　*Prof. Cornelissen's presentation will be in English, and Mr. Yoshizawa's will be in Japanese. There will be no simultaneous interpretation, but Prof. Connelissen's presentation will be translated in Japanese and distributed to the audience. ◆Admission: Free ◆No pre-registration is required. ◆Jointly Organized by International Center for Japan Studies, TUFS and African Studies Center - TUFS ◆Contact: International Center for Japan Studies tel: 042-330-5794　email: info-icjstufs.ac.jp The reception will be held from 6:00 pm after the workshop on March 6th. For those who'd like to participate in the reception, please contact International Center for Japan Studies in advance (those who'd like to participate in only the seminar or/and the workshop do not need to pre-register).→【Update on Feb. 20】The reception will be cancelled due to Coronavirus situation in Japan. However, the seminar and the workshop will be held as planned.

BBC Documentary Series "Africa with Ade Adepitan" has been released as DVD in Japan in February 2020. In the series, Mr. Ade Adepitan, the former wheelchair basketball player, visits various African countries and reports realities of each countries, such as people, economic growth, histories, political influences, conflicts, and so on. Prof. Shinichi Takeuchi, our director, and Dr. Yasuo Matsunami, our specially appointed researcher, supervised Japanese subtitles. ◆Series Title: Africa with Ade Adepitan (Maruzen Publishing) 　Volume 1: Western Part (Cape Verde/Senegal/Côte d'Ivoire/Nigeria)　Volume2: Central Part (Gabon/DRC/Uganda)　Volume 3: Eastern Part (Tanzania/Ethiopia/Somalia)　Volume 4: Southern Part (Mozambique/South Africa/Zimbabwe) ◆Japanese Subtitles Supervisors: Shinichi Takeuchi, Yasuo Matsunami ◆Details: Originally broadcasted in 2018/60 min/English with Japanese and English subtitles

African Studies Center - TUFS will conduct a joint seminar with Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Rwanda on February 18 and 19, 2020. This is the second international seminar that we conduct in African countires after UP-TUFS Seminar held on September 2018 in South Africa. The theme of the seminar is "Resource Management and Development", and we invite researchers and students from Japan, Rwanda, Ghana, Cameroon, South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Democratic Republic of the Cong. ◆Theme: Resource Management and Development ◆Date: February 18 and 19, 2020 ◆Venue: Conferece Hall, PIASS ◆Jointly organized by PIASS and ASC-TUFS You can see the abstracts of all the presentations and short biographies of all speakers from here.

African Studies Center - TUFS (ASC-TUFS) will host the 49th ASC Seminar on February 5, 2020. This is jointly organized by Kanto branch of Japan Association for African Studies. We invite Dr. Nii Attoh-Okine from University of Delaware. Topic of the seminar is 'Zongo', areas of contemporary West African towns established as a result of trading activities. On the case study in Ghana, Dr. Attoh-Okine will discuss how physical infrastructure like roads, drinking water and sanitation can be maintained once constructed within the zongo communities. ◆Title: Infrastructure Development and the Hausa Enclaves (Zongo) in Accra, Ghana ◆Speaker: Dr. Nii Attoh-Okine　　　　　　(Professor, Civil and Environmental Enginerring, University of Delaware; Visiting Professor, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Tsukuba) ◆Abstract: Zongos are areas of contemporary West African towns established as a result of trading activities. In Ghana, they mostly came into existence before colonization. The word 'Zongo' comes from the Hausa 'zango,' which means 'temporary settlement.' Contemporary Zongos are often characterized by overcrowding and inadequate sanitation, and represent, both symbolically and practically, a condition that is between inclusion and exclusion. For example, a classical example of Zongo is Nima (Accra) which was settled in 1931 by Hausa cattle dealers. In 1947 the colonial town planning office complained about rapid growth of the area, and how residents constructed homes, kiosks, and mosques wherever they could find land, often without direct access to roads, water, a good sanitation system, among others. The government of Ghana in the recent years formed a new Ministry of Inner City and Zongo Development. The main objective of this Ministry is to develop an inclusive and sustainable inner city and Zongo. In this talk, I will discuss how physical infrastructure like roads, drinking water and sanitation can be maintained once constructed within the zongo communities. How basic "report cards" can collected by the opinion leaders in the Zongo communities and also introduce the youth to basic infrastructure monitoring and assessment in their community. ◆Short Bio: Nii Attoh-Okine is a Full Professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Delaware, United States. His research interests are in the area of resilience engineering, computational intelligence and large data analytics in infrastructure systems and smart cities. He serves as an Associate Editor of various journals; few examples include ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers/American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. He is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Construction and Building Materials. He is the author of the following books: Resilience Engineering: Models and Analysis [Cambridge Press 2016], and Big Data and Differential Privacy: Analysis Strategies for Railway Track Engineering [John Wiley, 2017]. ◆Date & Time: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 1:30 - 3:00 pm ◆Venue: Room 106, Research and Lecture Building,Tokyo University of Foreign Studies ◆Language: English ◆Admission: Free ◆No pre-registration is needed. ◆Jointly organized by African Studies Center - TUFS and Kanto branch of Japan Association for African Studies