March 1-4, 2022 International conference "Leadership and Power in Africa in the Past and the Present: Studies in Russia, Tanzania and Beyond"


THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES


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Тел. (495) 690-27-52
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30/1 Spiridonovka str., Moscow, 123001
Tel. (495) 690-27-52
Fax: (495) 697-19-54
E-mail: inafr@inafr.ru
https://www.inafran.ru/en

An opening of the international scientific conference "Leadership and Power in Africa in the past and present: research by scientists from Russia, Tanzania and other countries" took place at the Russian House in Dar es Salaam on March, 1. The conference was attended by about 100 scientists who presented more than 100 reports. The conference was held not only in the halls of the Russian House, but also online. The work of the international scientific forum lasted until March 4.

The conference was timed to the 100 anniversary of one of the brightest leaders in the African history of the XX century, the first president of Tanzania, Julius Kambarage Nyerere. During the conference, the participants analyzed a particularly wide sphere of questions, tied to the leadership problematics in Africa. The reports concerned all the continent’s regions and its historical periods. The problem of leadership was analyzed as well as on the continental, as on the national levels. Besides the general aspects of the problem of leadership in Africa, a special attention was attributed to its particular important aspects: social, economical, legal, gender, educational and others. The conference which unified the scientists from 16 States in Russian House in Dar es Salaam and on Zoom, became a notorious event in the international African studies’s current agenda. This conference continued the previous scientific events, organized collectively by the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Dar es Salaam and the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the last two decades, including the previous international scientific conference, which took place in 2020. Undoubtedly, it is reasonable to continue and expand the partnership which was developing so well.