SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL FOR THE PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC
SOCIO-POLITICAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES (SCPA)

The Scientific Council for the Problems of Africa was founded in 1966 within the network of the Academy of Sciences. Presently the Council func­tions under the Social Sciences Division of the RAS.

The RAS Institute for African Studies acts as the host organization of the SCPA. The Institute is charged with the responsibility to provide the SCPA with logistical, financial and organizational support in its activities.

Chairman of the RAS Scientific Council for the Problems of Africa is the RAS Corresponding Member, Professor Alexei VASILIEV.
The main fields of research studies

• History of the Near and Middle East and Africa
• International Relations
• Political Sciences
• Islamic Studies

Deputy Chairmen of the RAS Scientific Council for the Problems of Africa

Leonid GEVELING, Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian and African States, Moscow State University, Dr Sc (Polit), Professor
The main fields of research studies

• Destructive forms of ruling m transition society types
• Socio-political development of West African countries

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Apollon DAV1DSON, Head of the Centre for African Studies at the RAS Institute of General History, Dr Sc (Hist), Professor.
The main fields of research studies

• History of the Southern and West Africa in the 19th -20th Centu­ries
• History of Russian-African Relations
• Source study and historiography
• Reciprocal images of Russia and African countries in literatures

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Andrei ZHUKOV, Head of the Chair of Africanistics at St Petersburg State University, Dr Sc. (Phil.), Professor.
The main fields of research studies

• Swahili: literature, language and culture
• History of Russian Africanistics
• Interrelation of Russian and foreign students of Africa

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Igor SLEDZEVSKIY - Director of the Centre for Civilizational and Re­gional Studies, Dr Sc (Hist)
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Executive Secretary of the RAS Scientific Council for the Problems of Africa - Anatoliy SAVATEEV, Dr Sc (Hist), Senior Research Fellow.
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Assistant to the SCPA Executive Secretary - Nina KLEVKOVA

The SCPA is comprised of 70 members from the academic Institutions of Russia, professors and lecturers of higher education Institutions and em­ployees of a number of practical organizations. Among them there are four corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 67 Doctors and Candidates of sciences (D's and PhD's).

The major task of the SCPA is the coordination of African studies car­ried out in the RAS institutions and in Russia's higher educational establishments in all main research fields, such as history, economics, interna­tional relations, Russian-African relations, political sciences, sociology, eth­nology, philosophy, law and the problems of building-up of the state, geog­raphy, philology and the study of literature.

The Council maintains professional contacts with the research centres of Ukraine, Byelorussia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turk­menistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

An important deal of the SCPA's activities is participation in preparing Russian and international conferences.

Once in three years the SCPA jointly with the Institute for African Stud­ies hold the Conference of Russian Africanists with broad participation of foreign scholars on African problems. The theses and papers delivered at the conferences are published in Russian and English.

Jointly with the RAS Institute for African Studies, St Petersburg State University, the RAS Centre tor Civilisational and Regional Studies and the RAS Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology (Kunstkamera) the SCPA held in St Petersburg the conference titled Africa: Societies, Cultures, and Languages in commemoration of a prominent Russian professional Africanist L.A. Olderogge. The collections of the conference materials are being published in D.A. Olderogge Memorial Readings series.

Jointly with the RAS Institute for African Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University, St Petersburg and Saratov State Universities the SCPA was an organizer of an all-Russia Conference School for New Africanists. The collected papers of the conference are now in print.

Scholarly accounts of the conferences on the African problems, held by the SCPA, are regularly published in the journal Vostok/Oriens.

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