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Joint seminar with Kyoto University on Land tenure reform in Africa

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 14:00 - 18:00

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Our visiting professors, Prof. Amanor and Dr. Teshome, and Prof. Takeuchi will visit Kyoto University and give a public lecture there. The seminar is jointly organized by the Center for African Area Studies (CAAS), Kyoto University and African Studies Center - TUFS, and this will be the 12th one.

The seminar's theme is "Consequences of Land Tenure Reform in Africa". Prof. Takeuchi, Dr. Teshome, Prof. Amanor, and Dr. Oyama, Kyoto University, will consider the cases in Rwanda, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Zambia.

You can check the abstracts of each presentation at the bottom of this webpage.

◆Theme: Consequences of Land Tenure Reform in Africa

◆Date & Time: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 14:00 - 18:00

◆Programme:
14:00 - 14:45 Shinichi Takeuchi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / IDE-JETRO)
        "Consequences of the Land Tenure Reform: The Case of Rwanda"

14:45 - 15:30 Teshome Emana (Addis Ababa University / Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
        "Urban Land Deal, Competing Perceptions, and Actors' Network in the Suburbs of Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia"

15:30 - 15:45 Break

15:45 - 16:30 Kojo Amanor (University of Ghana / Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
        "Community, State and Chiefs: Administrative Land Reform and Commodification in Ghana"

16:30 - 17:15 Shuichi Oyama (Kyoto University)
        "The Chief 's Authority and Local Beneficiaries in the Customary Land under the Land-market Reform of 1995 Land Act in Zambia"

17:15 - 18:00 General Discussion

◆Venue: Room #318 (CAAS Seminar Room), 3F, Inamori Center, Kyoto University

◆Language: English

◆Admission: Free

◆No pre-registration is needed.

◆Jointly organized by the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University and African Studies Center - TUFS

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