On the first and second Saturdays (6th and 13th October) from 4pm to 4:30 in Japanese and from 4:30 to 5pm in English, KIC students from Africa share their stories about what has surprised them once in Kobe, Japan, what they have found out through their life there, and other things they found intriguing and mind-blowing in Kobe or in Japan in general.

On October program, they are talking about Typhoon in September.And, besides their research at the graduate school, they are talking about what they want to take to home country from Japan.
In this month, our guest students from KIC are Mr. OYELEKE AKEEM IDOWU (on the right of the photo） from Federal Republic of Nigeria and Mr. NDUWAYEZU GABRIEL (on the left of the photo) from Republic of Rwanda.
They are with our regular personalities, Ms. Funayama (Left photo: Having worked in multiple African countries) and Prof. Nsenda (Architect originally from Democratic Republic of Congo and graduated from Kyoto university graduate school).

As usual we go to a local restaurant nearby FMYY.

10月6日の第1週土曜日と13日の第2土曜日の4時~4時半日本語で、4時半から5時は英語で、神戸情報大学院大学のアフリカからの学生たちが、日本・神戸に住んでみて気づいたことやアフリカの自分の国のことを紹介しています。私たちにが普段気づかないことに気づかせてもらえます。

今月のアフリカからの留学生は、写真の左の方がルワンダ共和国からのガブリエル（NDUWAYEZU GABRIEL）、そして左の方がナイジェリア連邦共和国からのアキームさん（OYELEKE AKEEM IDOWU）です。

ガブリエルさんは、修士１年生ですので、日本に来て1年が過ぎたところです。アキームさんは、この９月に２年間の過程を無事に終了しました。

９月の台風21号が来た際の様子や体験した感想を聞いています。
また、二人の学生がそれぞれの国の紹介をされています。特に、アキームさんは、映画や音楽が盛なことなどナイジェリアの魅力について熱く語っています。
そして、日本で学んだことを母国に持って帰るだけでなく、母国のことで日本に伝えるべきことについても話していますが、非常に興味深い話を聞かせていただけます。
パーソナリティは、神戸情報大学院大学の船山・プロジェクトマネージャー（左側：アフリカなどの国々でNGO活動等に参加）とセンダ先生（右側：コンゴ出身　大阪大学大学院を卒業、建築家）です。収録のあとは、いつものように地域の食堂で交流を行いました。

Mr. Israel Nishimwe and Mr. James Ndekezi, both high school students then, participated in the 6-month training program from October 2017 to March 2018, which was provided under KIC’s ICT human resource development project in Rwanda.


During the training course, the two youngsters produced a “smart table” that can charge such devices like smart phones or laptops, or turn on a light when those are put on the table, using wireless electricity technology. This voice message about their project was recorded soon after they embarked on the training course. They tell us that the smart table is a cheap method to make people’s lives more convenient.

Moreover, the wireless electricity technology that they used can also prevent electric shock accidents when applied to a wider range of things, and if combined with solar power generating system, it can also lessen the burden on the environment, they say. They confidently concluded the interview by saying “the future will be better than the past.”