August 20, 2023, Pre-colonial Africa – Dmitry Bondarenko

What was pre-colonial Africa like? Which African countries were not European colonies? What state entities existed throughout the sub-Saharan continent? Which places and regions of Africa were colonized first? Where did Islam actively penetrate, and where did Christianity? Where and by whom was the slave trade carried out in Africa?

Dmitry Bondarenko, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the International Center for Anthropology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, talks about pre-colonial Africa.