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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) is held by Japan’s government every five years. When it started in 1993, only five African heads of state attended. By 2008, TICAD IV had ballooned to around 7,000 participants from 51 countries, Japanese ministries, NGOs, and multilateral institutions, and pledged a funding increase to US$1.8bn. Impressive figures – but is this commensurate with the role that Japan plays on the continent? Andrea Bohnstedt speaks to Japan’s ambassador to Kenya, Shigeo Iwatani.
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