109_ASCSeminar_Eng.ver.pdfThe 109th ASC Seminar will feature a talk by Dr. Tawanda Sachikonye on "An African G20 or a G20 in Africa: A preliminary overview of South Africa's G20 Presidency" The seminar will be held in a hybrid format, allowing participation via Zoom as well. Please be sure to register in advance. Title: "An African G20 or a G20 in Africa: A preliminary overview of South Africa's G20 Presidency" Abstract: This presentation seeks to provide a perceptive and informed overview of South Africa's 2025 G20 Presidency. South Africa's leadership of the G20 marks a significant historic landmark as it is the first time an African country has chaired the G20 forum since its inception in 1999. A special emphasis will be placed on evaluating the extent to which South Africa's G20 Presidency has provided a uniquely 'African' G20. In this regard, the recent accession of the African Union (AU) as a formal member of the G20 framework is particularly noteworthy. Furthermore, South Africa's G20 marks the end of an eventful cycle of Global South G20 leadership; during which Indonesia (2022), India (2023), and Brazil (2024) have strongly advocated for greater inclusion and representation of developing countries within global economic governance and finance institutions. The presentation will also explore how South Africa has sought to advocate for the African "developmental agenda" whilst also trying to consolidate broader South-South and North-South (including enhanced Japan-South Africa partnership) multilateral cooperation within a fraught and challenging international context. Ultimately, the presentation will attempt to assess what the legacy of South Africa's G20 might be in terms of: amplifying the AU's voice within global economic governance forums; adequately addressing Africa's increasingly adverse and unsustainable debt levels; ensuring that Africa's pressing human capital needs are firmly placed on the G20's agenda going forward; challenges (including how the incoming G20 Chair, the United States, has opposed South Africa's G20 leadership); and ordinary African citizens' perception of South Africa's historic G20 Presidency. Keywords: South Africa, G20 Presidency, African, African Union, debt, human capital, global economic governance, multilateral cooperation. ◆Speaker: Dr. Tawanda Sachikonye（ Research consultant for the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO), South Africa） Bio-note: Dr Tawanda Sachikonye obtained his PhD in Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. As a foreign policy expert and international relations researcher, he has conducted research on South Africa's trade and economic diplomacy, South Africa's relations with Zimbabwe; South Africa's role within the region and continent; as well as South Africa's engagements at the United Nations Security Council. Moreover, he has thirteen years' experience dealing with civil society engagements pertaining to South African foreign policy advocacy. ◆Date：Wednesday, December 17th, 2025/ 5:40p.m.～7:10p.m.（JST） 8:40a.m.～10:10a.m.（GMT)◆Venue：Hybrid?Onsite Room103（1F Research and lecture bldg.,TUFS Fuchu Campus）＆ Online（ZoomMeeting）?Access：https://www.tufs.ac.jp/abouttufs/contactus/access.html◆Language：English◆Addmission fee：FREEPlease pre-register in advence from here. Or Use QR Code.The Zoom link will be sent after you pre-registerd. Registration deadline: Noon December 17th, 2025 (Wed) ◆Jointly organized by African Studies Center - TUFS and Kanto Branch of Japan Association for African Studies

6th December Symposium Poster.pdf The Exhibition's Symposium:Forced Evictions, Urban Informalities, & Urban HustlingsDate and Time: SATURDAY 6TH DEC 2025 13:00 - 17:00Language: EnglishVenue： Exhibition room, Ground Floor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa(ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS)Access:The nearest train station is Tama Station on the Seibu Tamagawa Line (5 minutes walk from the station).Tobitakyu station on the Keio line takes about 20 minutes on foot. https://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/about/access/Registration: https://forms.gle/uCP2HJrvyycq4XwT6<<Program>>1.Introduction of the Mukuru Project [Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA, TUFS)] 2. Forced Evictions, Urban Informalities & Urban Hustling [Kithinji KINYUA (ASC-TUFS)] 3. Making Sense of Resilience in Nairobi Slums: Life after Evictions and the Meaning of Land [IMAYOSHI Yuko, SAKAGUCHI Kanon, YOKOYAMA Yae, FUKUMOTO Sayaka, HAMAGUCHI Koya,MATSUMOTO Rintaro, RYU Ayumi, TSUJI Tamaki, HAYASHI Yuka, (African Studies - TUFS)] 4. Commune and State: Two Sources of Resilience in Overcoming Crises -- Comparative Insights from Kenya's Mukuru Forced Evictions and Japan's Disaster Recovery[NAGASE Ayaka, KATO Wakana, SHINOHARA Marika, SASAKI Kanata, MIYATA Manami, NAKAGAWA Sayako, ADACHI Senri, FUKUSHIMA Kana, YASHIMA Shinya (African Studies - TUFS)] 5. Waterscapes of Struggles: A Political Ethnography of Water Access in Nairobi's Informal Settlements [Rin WATANABE (Univ. of Tokyo) & Kithinji KINYUA (ASC-TUFS)]6. The 'Hustle' Project: The concept of "Hustle'' Now and the Future[Wakana SHIINO,Isao MURAHASHI, Eri HASHIMOTO, Takuya HAGIWARA, Rebecca BABIRYE and other members]Organised by The Research institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)Contact:Wakana Shiino (wakana@aa.tufs.ac.jp); Kithinji Kinyua (labsgithinji@gmail.com)

Prof. Hiroshi Nakagawa of our center will hold a photo exhibition titled "Photo Exhibition of the Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers: 1992-1996" during the Gaigosai 2025, from November 22 to 24, 2025, 10:00-16:00, in Room 414 (Phonetics Laboratory), 4th floor of the Research and Lecture Building, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Please feel free to stop by when you visit Gaigosai 2025. More Info：Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers Photo Exhibition: 1992-1996.PDF Please Come by！！

Flyer.pdf.pdf Exhibition PeriodNovember 20 (Thu) - December 7 (Sun), 2025, 12:00-18:00(During the Gaigosai Festival, Nov 20-24: 10:00-18:00) Admission: Free For more Info: https://r-dimension.xsrv.jp/resilient-life/tufs/◆Gallery tour schedules will be posted on the website as they become available. The exhibition 'Tales after Forced Eviction: Home, Resilience, Return, and Reconstruction', documents a project in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi, Kenya, where residents whose houses were forcibly evicted returned to their original land and rebuilt their dwellings. It is a collaborative project involving specialists in art, architecture, political science, and socio-cultural anthropology.The exhibition comprises three sections: Materiality of Lives, Rebuilding Home and Dignity, and The Scenes of Mukuru. It presents the residents' resilience and spirit of creative reuse while also examining urban land use, poverty, administrative issues, the environment faced by young people, and the challenges faced by families and women straddling rural and urban areas. In this age of information overload, where events unfolding daily around the world flood into our smartphones and computers via media and social networking services, we may have become overly accustomed to images and photographs. However, in this exhibition, by listening to the narratives of six individuals and viewing alongside them the fragments of objects brought back from the site that once existed within people's living spaces, we hope visitors will gain some sense of Mukuru as the reality, sparks their imagination, and broadens their personal insights into the diverse issues raised. It also seeks to resonate with issues of disaster recovery and regional revitalization in Japan, offering perspectives that encourage reflection on sustainable societies and global human rights challenges. Project Team MembersWakana Shiino (Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)Yasushi Noguchi (Professor, Department of Interactive Media, Tokyo Polytechnic University)Saori Imoto (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and Design, Japan Women's University)Kithinji Kinyua (Research fellow, African Studies Center,Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Setup team byMadoka Kikuchi,SHINOHARA Marika Shinohara,and Chengqiu Hong