Dr Kweku Ampiah

Core Researcher

DPhil Oxford; MA Windsor; BA ICU, Japan.

Research Interest

• Japan's relations with Africa including Japan's economic assistance to Africa
• Post-war Japanese diplomacy and international relations
• International political economy
• Sino-Africa relations

Selected publications

Ampiah, Kweku and Naidu, Sanusha (eds.), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?: Africa and China, Scottsville: 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.

"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.

The Dynamics of Japan's Relations with Africa: South Africa, Tanzania and Nigeria, London: Routledge, 1997.