4-5th Nov 2017 International symposium@ILCAA, TUFS “Family Transformation in Rapidly Developing Asia-Africa Societies Faced with Economic Disparity, Urbanization and War”

November 23, 2017 Events

International symposium “Family Transformation in Rapidly Developing Asia-Africa Societies Faced with Economic Disparity, Urbanization and War”

-Venue: Room 304, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)

Wakiko Ohira (JSPS/ The University of Tokyo)

“Bunyoro’s Oil Development and its Influence at the Household Level: Increasing Land-Related Issues and the Importance of Land Governance”

Isao Murahashi (JSPS/ Kyoto University)

“Reorganization of ‘Family’ and Diversification of Livelihoods of South Sudanese Refugees: The Case of Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement in Uganda”

Eri Hashimoto (Takachiho University)

“Dealing with Vulnerable “Blood”: Dilemmas on Marriage and Family among the Nuer Refugees in Uganda”

-Chris Opesen (Makerere University)

“‘A Pokot Man has One or Two Wives on Either Side of the Border:’ An Ethnographic Discourse of the Polygynous Family Setup of the Pokot at the Kenya-Uganda Border”

Soichiro Shiraishi (Hirosaki University)

“Migration, Education and Family Ties/Gaps: Fragments of a Family History in the Uganda-Kenya Borderlands, 1960s-1990s”

Hazama Itsuhiro (Nagasaki University)

“Living with Grandmother―Intergenerational Relationship among the Dodoth”

Comments:

Charles Ndegwa Mundia (Institute of Geomatics, GIS and Remote Sensing, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology）

Ian Karusigarira (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

November 5
The Changing Living Environment in African Cities, Asia and the “Family” Life

Charles Ndegwa Mundia (Institute of Geomatics, GIS and Remote Sensing, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology）
“Analysis of Development in Nairobi in face of Economic Disparity and Urbanization.”…

International Joint Meeting on 2nd Nov, 2017 Is Female Genital Modification (FGM) a Development Issue in Africa?: Evidence Based Analysis from the Pokot Kenya-Uganda Border Ethnography

October 23, 2017 Events

The Meeting of International Joint Research by Female Researchers/5th Meeting Gender and Sexuality Research Team ‘African Potential’ and Overcoming the difficulties of modern world: Comprehensive are studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity” (JSPS grant-in-aid project (S))

【English】Website has been Opened

October 23, 2017 Official notice

This is the website of African-Japanese Researcher’s Network. Let us exchange academic information for our future corroborative study in Africa.…

5th Sep 2017 Study meeting@Makerere University

September 23, 2017 Events