Date and Time: March 6, 2021 (Saturday), 14:00 – 16:30
Venue: held as a video conference
Program:
- 14:00～14:05: Business announcement
- 14:05～14:15: Purpose of this meeting: Motoji Mastuda (project leader, Kyoto University)
- 14:15～15:25: Report on the publication of each Research Unit (1)
- Volume 1: African Politics of Survival: Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World
Mitsugi Endo (Leader of the Nation and Citizenship Unit, the University of Tokyo)
Volume 2: Knowledge, Education and Social Structure in Africa
Shoko Yamada (Leader of the Education and Human Development Unit, Nagoya University)
Volume 3: People, Predicaments and Potentials in Africa
Takehiko Ochiai (Leader of the Conflict and Conviviality Unit, Ryukoku University)
Volume 4: Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa: Beyond the Dichotomy
Motoki Takahashi (Leader of the Development and Livelihood Unit, Kyoto University)
Volume 5: Dynamism in African Languages and Literature: Towards Conceptualisation of African Potentials
Keiko Takemura (Leader of the Language and Literature Unit, Osaka University) - 15:25～15:35：Coffee break
- 15:35～15:55：Report on the publication of each Research Unit (2)
- Volume 6: ‘African Potentials’ for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Against the Images of ‘Deficiency’ and Tyranny of ‘Fortress’
Toshio Meguro (Leader of the Environment and Ecology Unit, Hiroshima City University)
Volume 7: Contemporary Gender and Sexuality in Africa: African-Japanese Anthropological Approach
Wakana Shiino (Leader of the Gender and Sexuality Unit, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) - 15:55～16:30：General Discussion (Chaired by Misa Hirano-Nomoto, Kyoto University)
Volume 1 – 5 are published in March 2021, and Volume 6 and 7 will be published in July 2021. All of them are published by the Langaa RPCIG, based in Cameroon.
Title and editors of seven volumes are as follows:
Volume 1
Title: African Politics of Survival: Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World
Editors: Mitsugi Endo (The University of Tokyo), Ato Kwamena Onoma (CODESRIA) and Michael Neocosmos (Rhodes University)
Volume 2
Title: Knowledge, Education and Social Structure in Africa
Editors: Shoko Yamada (Nagoya University), Akira Takada (Kyoto University) and Shose Kessi (University of Cape Town)
Volume 3
Title: People, Predicaments and Potentials in Africa
Editors: Takehiko Ochiai (Ryukoku University), Misa Hirano-Nomoto (Kyoto University) and Daniel E. Agbiboa (Harvard University)
Volume 4
Title: Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa: Beyond the Dichotomy
Editors: Motoki Takahashi (Kyoto University), Shuichi Oyama (Kyoto University) and Herinjatovo Aimé Ramiarison (University of Antananarivo)
Volume 5
Title: Dynamism in African Languages and Literature: Towards Conceptualisation of African Potentials
Editors: Keiko Takemura (Osaka University) and Francis B. Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town)
Volume 6
Title: ‘African Potentials’ for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Against the Images of ‘Deficiency’ and Tyranny of ‘Fortress’
Editors: Toshio Meguro (Hiroshima City University), Chihiro Ito (Fukuoka University) and Kariuki Kirigia (McGill University)
Volume 7
Title: Contemporary Gender and Sexuality in Africa: African-Japanese Anthropological Approach
Editors: Wakana Shiino (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu (Makerere University)
