“What are African Potentials? A question which has been linked
with African countries’ decolonisation and their development process.
These African potentials as well as problems need to be discussed within
an interdisciplinary platform of scholars, policy and decision makers,
and civil societies. This African Potentials Project responds to all
those needs and became a driving force to understand Africa and build a
collaboration between African and Japanese scholars toward a common
goal, changing the stereotype image of Africa and thinking about a
better future for Africa. I hope that this book, as a result of a
10-year interdisciplinary, international joint research project, can be a
reference for building new partnership between African and Japanese
scholars, civil societies and regional institutions.”
