Akiyo Aminaka is research fellow of the IDE-JETRO (Institute of Developing Economies – Japan External Trade Organization). She has written various articles including “Understanding the Outbreak of Political Violence in Mozambique: Demobilized Soldiers and role of the Opposition” in Africa Report (Chiba: IDE, 2017, in Japanese). Her first book entitled Colonial Rule and Development: Mozambique and the South African Gold Mining Industry (Tokyo: Yamakawa-Shuppansha, 2014, in Japanese) was awarded a prize by the Japan Association for African Studies in 2015. Her current interests lie in social change and policy, especially on cultural policy, land policy, labor migration, state building of post-conflict countries and development scheme transplantation with particular focus on Mozambique and Angola.
