Presented Papers

Decolonization and globalization 1:
Tekeste Negash (Dalarna University, Falun): Higher education and the decolonisation discourse
Karin Hiiemaa (University of Tartu): Decolonization of the Mind – the Case of Africa Sébastien
Kapp (EHESS Paris): Recreating rural tradition in Central Africa: the other side of globalization
Obinna Ihunna (Federal University of Technology, Owerri): Africa, Decolonization and the Politics of Venomous Elite

Endangered languages:
Graziano Savà (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli): What does documentation of endangered languages mean? The case of the Ongota Documentation Project (Southwest Ethiopia)
Helma Pasch (Universität zu Köln): Mündü, an endangered language of Southern Sudan
Václav Blažek/Jan Záhořík (Masarykova Univerzita Brno/ Západočeská univerzita v Plzni): Baiso – an endangered language of the Ethiopian highlands Its position, linguistic affiliation and socio-linguistic situation
Daniel O. Orwenjo (J. W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main): Lexical Borrowing as Language Contact Phenomena: Phonological Adaptations of Dholuo Loanwords from Swahili

Politics:
Petr Skalník (Univerzita Pardubice): Nationhood in post-colonial Africa: between politics and religion
Ineke van Kessel (University of Leiden): Post-Apartheid South Africa: Class, Culture, the neo-patrimonial welfare state and African Nationalism
Vlastimil Fiala (Palackého Univerzita Olomouc): Function of the African Political Parties

Religion:
Shelley Ashdown (SIL, Dallas): The Supernatural Category of the Non-Physical Self in Ndorobo World View
Annekie Joubert, Cilliers Breytenbach (Humboldt Universität, Berlin): Code Switching in Religion: From Ancestors to Christian Prophets in Southern Africa
Kateřina Mildnerová (Západočeská univerzita v Plzni): Spirtitual healing in context of the Zambian Christian Initiatives today (case study of Mutumwa churches in Lusaka)
Aleksandra Cimpric (Université Aix-Marseille I): Occult forces, practice and imaginary, in urban context of CAR

Social Issues:
Radka Rejhová, Elias Lee Tembo (Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích): Family situation in Zambia
Philip L. Kilbride (Bryn Mawr College): Still Working on the Streets: Post "Street Child" Transition in Kenya
Ogunniyi Ayodeji Ige (University of Lagos): Cultural Factor in the Development Paradigm of an African Society in the 21st Century. An Appraisal of the Ovia Osese Ceremony

Ethnicity and Identity:
Hana Horáková (Univerzita Hradec Králové): Contested language: Nuwe Afrikaanse Beweging in a New South Africa
Jan Záhořík (Západočeská univerzita v Plzni): Ethnicity, languages, and the discussion on the Ethiopian constitution
Fekadu Adugna (Max Planck Institut for Social Anthropology, Halle): State and identity politics: an experience from Oromo-Somali border in Ethiopia
Tomáš Machalík (Západočeská univerzita v Plzni): Namibian Czechs today - an overall summary of the issue

Culture and Education 1:
A.M. Maphumulo (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal): An analysis of a plot structure of DBZ Ntuli’s radio trilogy: Isivumelwano, Isivumelwano Esisha and Ngenxa  Yesivumelwano
P.B.Skhosana (University of Pretoria): 'AmaNdebele culture influence in character delineation in NE Skosana's drama: Kanti Ngewakabani ? (To whom does she belong ?)
Jerry Mojalefa (University of Pretoria): Ramaila and Matsepe: two authors representing two different periods in the history of Sepedi literature
Daniel Künzler (Universität Zürich): “The state has resigned.” Transformations in the educational system of Benin, West Africa

Beyond Africa:
Ivo T. Budil (Západočeská univerzita v Plzni): Hannah Arendt and Africa
Wondwosen Teshome B. (University of Vienna): The Cold War Politics in the Horn: Ethiopia in the Bipolar World (1945-1991)
Loránd Szabó (University of Pécs): Power Brokers and Stability in the Congo Basin (Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2003–2007)

Decolonization and Globalization 2:
Irma Taddia (University of Bologna): Reconsidering Horn of Africa studies today
István Tarrósy (University of Pécs): Africa’s global positions in light of non-alignment since 1955
Martijn Wienia (University of Leiden): Silence and insecurity in Post-Conflict Northern Ghana

Culture and Education 2:
Catharina Enhörning (Dalarna University, Falun): African Studies Education at Dalarna University: Programme based on Partnerships
Isaac Akenji Ndambi (University of Bufea): Africa Cultural Revival and Sustainability in the Face of Modernity: An Ethnographic Study of the Traditional and Cultural Dances of the Peoples of the Bameda Grasslands of Cameroon
Akin Ibidapo-Obe (University of Lagos): The Legal Protection and Preservation of Cultural and Religious Diversities in a Globalised World

Cultural Programme

- Asaph Batecereza > Exposition of paintings
- Dance performance of TukuTiko cultural group
- Music Drum performance of Papis Nyass, Gambia

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