On September 17, 2024, Oxana Ivanchenkon has presented a report “Formation of the Tanzanian nation in the conditions of ethnoracial stratification: field study results” in the frames of scientific seminar “Culture and Society”. The report was based on the field research conducted in Tanzania in November 2023 (Russian Science Foundation grant No. 23-18-01091), during the study 33 interviews were carried out in Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo cities.

March
Bondarenko D.M. Neotraditionalism and Nation Building in Post-colonial Africa

April
Bryndina V.N. Christians of Zanzibar and Pemba: History and Current Situation

New Delhi, India

On April 11, 2023, in the framework of the seminar “Culture and Society” of the Center of History and Cultural Anthropology, Oksana Ivanchenko presented a report “Remembering the leaders of Tanganyika: Arab-Swahili slave trade and the contamination of slave trade and colonial discourses in modern Tanzania”. The report was based on the results of 5 years of field researches conducted in Tanzania by members of the center, Ivanchenko O.V., Banshchikova A.A.

RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES

Centre for History and Cultural Anthropology

On December 14-15, 2022, the All-Russian Scientific Conference “Sources for African History: Problems, Trends, Prospects of Study and Use”. was held, dedicated to the birthdays of famous africanists Georgii Tsypkin, Irina Filatova, and Alexander Balezin. The event was organized by the Center for African Studies of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. and was conducted offline and online.

RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES