Speaker, Britain and Japan in the Developing World, The Daiwa Anglol-Japan Foundation, 24 September, 2009
Speaker and Participant, Policy Advisory Group: Taming the Dragon: Defining Africa's Interests at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC), Premier Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa, 13-14 July 2009
Speaker, Japan's Attitude to the Bandung Conference of 1955, The Nissan Institute Seminars, 24 October 2008
Participant, East Asian Japanese Studies Conference (PhD Workshop Advisor), Lecce (Italy), September 2008
Speaker, Japan, TICAD and the G8, Chatham House, London, June, 2008
Speaker, Japan EU Symposium on Africa's Development, Charlemagne Building, Brussels, 3 March 2008
Organiser, The Tokyo International Conference on African Development: Japan's Attempts to Re-invent the Development of Africa, University of Leeds, Leeds, February.
Speaker, Public Seminar on the Legacy of Bandung: China, Asia and Africa, The Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town, September 17, 2007
Speaker, Public Seminar on China's Relations with Africa, The Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town, September 17-18, 2007
Key Publications and Activities
Books and Monographs
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Africa and China. Scotsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008
The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955: The Reactions of US, UK and Japan, London: Global Oriental, 2007
The Dynamics of Japan's Relations with Africa: South Africa, Tanzania and Nigeria, London: Routledge, 1997
Book Chapters
"The Sino-African Relation: Towards: Towards and Evolving Partnership?" In Kweku Ampiah and Sanusha Naidu (eds.), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Africa and China. Scotsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008
"Japan at the Bandung Conference: An Attempt to Assert an Independent Foreign Policy" In Iokibe Makoto, Caroline Rose, Tomaru Junko and John Weste (eds.) Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s: From Isolation to Integration, London: Routledge, 2008
"Nigeria's Fledgling Friendship with Japan: The Beginning of a 'Special Partnership'?" African and Asian Studies, 2005, vol.4, no.4
"Japan and the Development of Africa: The Tokyo International Conference on African Development", African Affairs, 2005, January, 2005
"L'Afrique du Sud dan la TICAD: un rôle pivot", Afrique Contemporaine, April, 2005, No. 212, April
"Japanese Investments in South Africa, 1992-1996: The State, Private Enterprise and Strategic Minerals", in Chris Alden and Katsumi Hirano eds., Japan and South Africa in a Globalising World: A Distant Mirror, London: Ashgate, 2003
"Noguchi Shika: the eternal mother of modern Japan", Japan Forum, 2000, vol. 12, no.1
"Japanese Aid to Tanzania: A Study of the Political Marketing of Japan in Africa", African Affairs, 1996, vol.95, no.378
Consultancies
Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town 2007 Japan and Africa Project
Teaching
Undergraduate
EAST 2224 Japanese for Research (Convenor)
EAST 2090 Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies
EAST 3252 Modern Japanese History
EAST 3261 Advanced Japanese in Context 1: Politics and International Relations
EAST 1265 Japan: History and International Politics
Postgraduate
EAST 5021M Japan: Economics, Politics and Contemporary Society (co-teacher)
Online MA: Japan: Japan: Economics, Politics and Contemporary Society (co-teacher)
MODL 5012M Skills and Issues in Intercultural Studies
