April 15, 2015 African Migration and Global Transformations in the Post-colonial World: Socio-cultural Aspects

On April 15, 2015, the Institute for African Studies held the “round table” titled African Migration and Global Transformations in the Post-colonial World: Socio-cultural Aspects, in partial fulfillment of the project supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities, grant # 14-01-00070 (the principal grantee is the Institute Vice Director for Research Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko). The following papers were given:
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  • О. Igho Natufe (Institute for African Studies). The Dilemma of African Migration
  • Nadezhda E. Khokholkova (Yaroslavl State University). Afrocentrism: A Theory of Global Socio-cultural Change
  • Dmitri M. Bondarenko (Institute for African Studies). The Civil Rights Movement in the USA and Anti-Apartheid Struggle in the RSA in the Historic Memory of African Americans and Contemporary African Migrants in America: Similarities and Differences
  • Nikolay G. Shcherbakov (Institute of General History). The African American Discourse in African Migration
  • Tatiana M. Gavristova (Yaroslavl State University). Mantia Diawara: About Self and Africa (about Africans and African Americans, the “University of Dream” and Return to Africa)
  • Irina O. Abramova (Institute for African Studies). African Migrants in Spain: Some Results of Field Research
  • Grigory A. Karpov (Institute for African Studies). African Communities in Contemporary Great Britain: Linguistic Aspects
  • Olga S. Kulkova (Institute for African Studies). The British Expert Community on the Potential of African Diaspora’s Participation in the Formation of the UK African Policy in the 2000s
  • Tatiana L. Deych (Institute for African Studies). The African Diaspora in China

Besides the papergivers, researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences institutes for African Studies, Social Sciences Information, Ethnology and Anthropology took part.