“Afrasian Connectivity in a Changing & Turbulent World” This annual conference, held on October 24, 2026, at Chiba Keizai University, examines how people are dealing with the Global Crisis and how it affects people’s daily expenses and rural-urban supply chains. The conference organizer, Atsuko Munemura, introduced that Chiba has a unique geography that connects urban and farming areas with a rich supply chain of farm products. This topic is connected to the key note session

Dear JSAS Members, We would like to share this Call for Chapters for an edited volume entitled Japan–Africa Relations Since the End of the Cold War: Trade, Investment, Diplomacy, and Development Partnership, edited by Sabella Abidde and Victor Adetula. The volume covers a wide range of themes that closely connect with the research interests of many JSAS members, including TICAD, trade and investment, development cooperation, human security, people-to-people relations, and Jap

By Seifudein Adem Editor's Introduction As both a Ugandan and the editor of this Newsletter, I am especially pleased to republish the following article with the author's kind permission. For me, this piece is about much more than the remarkable political journey of New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani. It is also a timely reminder of one of the enduring intellectual contributions of the late Professor Ali A. Mazrui, whose insights into identity, globalization, and the Afr

This article was first published in Africa Intelligence on 23.07.2026 By Oumarou Barry and Paul Deutschmann Oumarou Barry, a Prof. at Ritsumeikan University, is AI correspondent in Japan. We are grateful for his efforts to secure permission for us to reproduce this article as a JSAS Newsletter. (Editor). Japan's Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi Japan has begun preparing the next edition of the TICAD conference, scheduled for August 2028. The ev

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual Conference, to be held at Chiba Keizai University, is now open. Please visit our conference page. Researchers and practitioners are warmly invited to submit presentation proposals. Please visit our conference page for submission guidelines, important dates, and other conference details. We are also finalizing arrangements for the plenary session, which will be held on the morning of Saturday, October 24.