Welcoming Address : Harushige Kusumi (President, Kansai University)

Kohei Yoshinaga (Dean, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University)

Chairperson : Katsuhiko Kitagawa(Kansai University)
Paper Presenters :

Hideaki Suzuki ( Nagasaki University, Japan) :
Africans in the Early 20th Century Persian Gulf

Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UK) :
Indian Ocean African Migrants : Recognition and Development

Ajay Dubey (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) :
Indian Ocean Diaspora in Africa : A Heritage Resources in Indo-African Interaction

Discussant :

Om Prakash (Delhli School of Economics, India, Visiting Scholar at Kansai University)

Chairperson : Bill Freund (University of KwaZulu Natal)
Paper Presenters:

Bill Freund (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) :
African Trade Unions : Awkward Customers

Girma Negash Ture (Univesity of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) :
Labour Migration as a Vehicle for Afro-Asian Symbiosis in Past and Present

Joseph Ndalilah (University of Kabianga, Kenya) :
Trade Unions in Kenyan History

Showers Mawowa(University of Pretoria) :
Labour History in Zimbabwe

Discussant:

Yoichi Mine (Doshisha University, Japan)

Chairperson : Alois Mlambo (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Paper Presenters:

Alois Mlambo (University of Pretoria, South Africa) :
From Industrial Hub to a pPredominantly Informal Economy: Over Two Decades of Economic Decline and De-industrialisation in Zimbabwe, 1990-2015

Maitseo Bolaane (University of Botswana, Botswana) :
Botswana ,a Diamond Centre without Industrialization, a Regional Context

Alfred Tembo (University of the Free State, South Africa) :
Industrialising a “Colonial Backwater”: Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) during the Second World War.

Ian Phimister/Victor Gwande ( University of the Free State, South Africa) :
Secondary Industry in Southern Rhodesia on the Eve of UDI: A Sectoral Analysis.

Discussant :

Kenta Goto (Kansai University, Japan)

Chairperson : Yoichi Mine (Doshisha University, Japan)

Paper Presenters :

Yoichi Mine (Doshisha University, Japan) :
Africa-Asia Relations in Past and Present : Long-term Evolution

Janis van der Westhuisen (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) :
Why the African National Congress in South Africa loves the Idea of ‘Developmental State’

Nathanel Agola (Doshisha University, Japan) :
The Enterpreneurial State : A Critical Review of East Asian Development Experience and Implications for African Countries

Discussant :

Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Chairperson : Mika Yamana (Kansai University, Japan)
Paper Presenters:

Sechaba Bareetseng (Council for Scientific and industrial Research, South Africa) :
Management of Indigenous Biological Resource and Indeginous Knowledge : CSIR Case Study

Manoj Shrestha (Konan University, Japan) :
Knowledge and Innovation in Africa

Mika Yamana (Kansai University, Japan) : Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights

Discussants :

Yoshitaka Shinkuma (Kansai University, Japan) , Naoko Tsuyama (Kansai University, Japan)

Chairperson : Kweku Ampiah ( University of Leeds, UK)

Paper Presenters :

Kweku Ampiah (University of Leeds, UK) :
The Discourse of Japanese Development Assistance and the Scaling-up of Community-based Health System in Ghana

Pedro Miguel Amakasu Rapposo de Mederios Carvalho (University Lusiada of Porto, Portugal ) :
The TICAD and Lusophone Africa in the New Millennium

Tukumbi Lumumba -Kasongo  (Wells College, USA) :
Africa-Japan Relations : “New TICAD”, International Cooperation and Post 2015

Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) :
The Evolution of TICAD as a Global Governance Mechanism

Katsumi Hirano (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan) :
Africa and Japan, Africa and East Asia

Discussants :

Ajay Dubey (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), Mohamed Omer Abdin (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)