Lives Matter in Africa: An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of Sustainability with a Concrete Case of Medina Sabakh, Senegal

Panel Convenor(s)

• CN

  Chikako Nakayama

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Panel Chair(s)

• CN

  Chikako Nakayama

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Panel Discussant(s)

• RD

  Rene Ndimag Diouf

  Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal

Presenter(s)

• CN

  Chikako Nakayama

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Co-Presenter(s)

• FS

  Fafa Sene

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Senegal
• SY

  Shinji Yokogawa

  University of Electro Communications, Japan

Presenter(s)

• MD

  Mamadou Drame

  Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal

Co-Presenter(s)

• MB

  Mamadou Yero Balde

  Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal
• MD

  Mouhamadou Lamine Diallo

  Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal

Presenter(s)

• CK

  Chihiro Kumashiro

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
• DB

  Djibrirou Daouda Ba

  Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal

Co-Presenter(s)

• AD

  Aibatou Diop

  Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal

This is a panel of joint research of Japanese and Senegalese researchers as a serious attempt to contribute interdisciplinary to the sustainability of our planet at this urgent stage of the Anthropocene. It aims to explore the potentiality of the Global South as the starting point to change the attitude toward sustainability. Particular attention is given to the implementation of the technology of electric energy with the analysis of its effects and influences on Medina Sabakh in Senegal.
A lively discussion of sustainable or endogenous developments in many countries, including Japan, in the 1970s and 1980s, being culminated in the Brundtland Report in 1987, followed by the foundation of ecological economics, environmental economics, etc., could not change the dominating trend of economics exercising a major influence on politics of many countries until nowadays. It has been owing to the increase in the importance of financial markets, political constraints of each country under the influence of global geopolitics, etc.. At this panel session, we explore the necessary elements for constructing a wider sense of economy to serve sustainability and corresponding development from within the heart of the Global South, taking the concrete case of Medina Sabakh into consideration. It also corresponds to the requirement of post-colonial studies to be based on women's empowerment as an indispensable element.
According to our interdisciplinary perspective, we discuss the geology, geography, ecosystems,  cultural anthropology, education and communication of technology, etc., that serve the livelihood of human beings in harmony with the environment, focusing on the case of the district.  This panel is a part of the joint research, 'Lives Matter in Africa', conducted from October 2024 to March 2028 (International Collaborative Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 24KK0001) in cooperation with Japanese and Senegalese researchers among natural science, social science, and humanities.

Presentations:

• 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

  Toward a Sustainable Empowerment of Women as the Foundation of Post-colonial Society
  

  Presenter: Chikako Nakayama – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

  Co-Presenter: Fafa Sene – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

  Co-Presenter: Shinji Yokogawa – University of Electro Communications
• 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

  Promoting Intelligent Agriculture and Education for Sustainable Development in Senegal
  

  Presenter: Mamadou Drame – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

  Co-Presenter: Mamadou Yero Balde – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

  Co-Presenter: Mouhamadou Lamine Diallo – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
• 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

  An Anthropological Study of Female Empowerment Based on a Voice of Local Community: A case study of Boumbane village in Senegal
  

  Presenter: Chihiro Kumashiro – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

  Promoting Intelligent Agriculture for Sustainable Development in Senegal
  

  Presenter: Djibrirou Daouda Ba – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

  Co-Presenter: Aibatou Diop – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar