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International Africanist Conference Announcement

The 15th conference of Africanists entitled ‘The Destinies of Africa in the Modern World’ will be held 24–26 May 2021 in a combined online/offline format to coincide with the Africa Day, celebrated annually on the continent on 25 May.


This year's conference is of great scientific and practical importance. It is being organized by the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with the Roscongress Foundation with the support of TASS. More than 500 researchers and experts from Russia, Africa, EU countries, America, Asia, Australia, and Oceania will participate.

 

In total, the programme provides for 48 sections dedicated to the trends of development of Africa, the national economy and technological development, socio-political problems, new challenges and threats, the state of international relations of the continent and options for strengthening Russia–Africa relations, the history of the continent, anthropology, linguistics, and more.

 

The conference will open with a plenary session, which will start at 10:00 Moscow time (UTC+3) 24 May 2021. Government representatives from the Russian Federation and the African Union, members of the business and expert communities, as well as media representatives from Russia and Africa will discuss current Russian-African cooperation agenda and development of appropriate proposals.

 

The Russian side will be represented by Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Olga Timofeeva; Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov; Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Natalia Bocharova; Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Alexey Gruzdev; Head of Rossotrudnichestvo Evgeny Primakov; Vice President of the Russian Academy of Science Academician Yuri Balega; Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Academician Alexey Vasiliev; TASS Director General Sergei Mikhailov; Russian Export Center CEO Veronika Nikishina; Senator of the Russian Federation and Chairman of Coordination Committee for Economic Cooperation with African Countries Igor Morozov; Chairman of the Association of Economic Cooperation with African States (AECAS) Alexander Saltanov; Managing Director for Multilateral Cooperation and Integration of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Sergey Mikhnevich.

 

The African side will be represented by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Christophe Lutundula Apala; Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology at African Union Commission Sarah Anyang Agbor; President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank) Dr. Benedict Okey Oramah; Dean of the African Diplomatic Corps, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cameroon to the Russian Federation H.E. Mahamat Paba Sale and Rector of the Free University of Kinshasa, Prof. Jean Michel Kumbu.

 

The plenary session will be moderated by the Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RAS Presidium Member, RAS Corresponding Member, Prof. Irina Abramova

 

Broadcast of the plenary session will be available at https://www.inafran.ru/en/node/705 

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“We highly value the results of our joint work at the summit. I am sure the achieved results are creating a good foundation for further deepening the Russia-Africa partnership in the interests of our nations’ prosperity and wellbeing.”

President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin

The Russia–Africa Summit, which is taking place in Sochi on 23–24 October 2019, encapsulates the historically friendly relations between the African continent and the Russian Federation. This Summit carries great significance as it is the first of its kind to emerge during a period of major global and international transformations. In response to the aspirations of the people it is representing, the Summit intends to build a comprehensive framework for expanding Russian–African relations into broader horizons of joint cooperation across different fields.

The African nations and Russia share a common understanding of international relations, based on the principles of respect for the rule of international law, equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of states, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Both sides affirm their commitment to support multilateral actions to oppose new international threats, be they terrorism and extremism in all their forms, or declining growth rates. The two sides share a firm conviction regarding the importance of developing trade flows and supporting mutual investment in such a way as to ensure security, peace and development for the African and Russian people.

African countries have huge potential and opportunities that will allow them, once efforts to streamline their economies have been achieved, to emerge as real global players. In recent years, the nations of this continent have achieved major successes spanning the political, economic, social and administrative spheres. Africa has flourished in terms of growth over the past decade, reaching a continent-wide growth rate of 3.55% in 2018.

The African Union Summit, which was held in Niger in July 2019, continued the efforts of the African countries and saw the African Continental Free Trade Agreement come into force, along with its operational instruments. The agreement is one of the key objectives of Agenda 2063, an African development strategy that has been created to address the African people’s desire for prosperity and decent living standards.

These successes are opening up wide-ranging prospects for cooperation between African countries and the Russian Federation, and confirm the determination of African governments and their people to cooperate with multiple partners in order to establish mutually beneficial relations.

With this in mind, we express our hopes that the Russia–Africa Summit will help in the establishment of constructive strategic relations, based on partnership between two sides across various fields, and in the service of fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the African people and their friends in Russia.

President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Abdelfattah ALSISI