Africa in the Changing World Development Paradigm

The 12th Conference of Africanists organized by the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held in May 2011. This volume contains abstracts of papers presented. The Conference, held triennially since 1969, is a major event in the area of African studies in Russia and beyond. The number and the diversity of the participants is particularly remarkable: academics, diplomats, Moscow-based and provincial, as well as foreign participants from a remarkable number of 25 countries: Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, UAE, UK, USA, Zimbabwe. Subjects covered range from economics, foreign relations, security issues, administration to history, culture, linguistics and religious studies. The book is a good reference tool to today’s problematics in African studies as it presents a cross-section of this vast and diverse field.