'Japan's Foreign Aid Policy in Africa' evaluates TICAD's intellectual contribution to and its development practices regarding Africa over the past 20 years. A central conclusion is that, while TICAD bureaucrats lacked agency to support Japanese companies in Africa, the model of emerging powers...

There has been much recent celebration of the success of African `civil society` in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - `home associations` - whose economic...