Amo Kae

Kae Amo currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) in Kyoto University.

She was a lecturer at  the Faculty of Global Culture at Kyoto Seika University, Japan between 2020 and 2023.

In addition, she is an associate researcher at the Institut des mondes africains (Institute of the African Worlds), and the France-Japan Foundation. These two entities are part of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS).
Between April and September 2019, she served as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). In this capacity, she was in charge of the “Discover Africa in French” course.
Prior to that, she was a research coordinator for the France-Japan Foundation at EHESS (2013-2018). In this position, she launched a research project focusing on the new relations between Asian and African countries. She planned, monitored and evaluated a series of activities such as conferences, field trips, one-on-one meetings, or workshops gathering an average of 50 guest speakers and 400 participants annually.
Kae Amo holds a PhD in Anthropology (EHESS, and University of Gaston Berger in Senegal, 2019). Her dissertation was on “The Dynamics of Islam in Higher Educational Institutions in Senegal”. She earned three Master’s degrees in political science (Keio University, Japan, 2010), anthropology (EHESS, France, 2009), and sociology (UCAD, Senegal, 2007). Kae’s main research interests include: Islam, social development, and education in West Africa; Urbanization, social infrastructure and transportation in West African cities; Media and popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa; and Asia-Africa relationships. She has published several articles and research papers in French and Japanese on these topics.