Recent Activities

• 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

Consultancies