On May 19, the students of MA in "Art of Literature" Higher School of Economics in cooperation with the State Literary Museum (Museum of the Silver Age) organized the "Africa and Literature" festival within the framework "Night of Museums - 2018" in Moscow.

From 13 to 27 of June 2017 Social Anthropologists of the Institute for African Studies: corresponding member of the RAS, Dr. Sc.(Hist), prof. D. Bondarenko (project manager), junior research fellow A. Lapushkina, and the head of the Russian Orthodox Old Believers Church mission in Uganda Priest N. Bobkov worked in the Republic of Uganda (in the capital Kampala and Nakabaale, Kisojjo, Kapeka).

Deputy Director of the Institute Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko was awarded a Certificate of Gratitude from the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature for participation in the First International Festival "Hot African Summer in the Library for Foreign Literature".

(Basel, Switzerland)

February 28, 2017 the Institute for African Studies hosted a meeting with colleagues from the Royal Museum of African Art, Brussels. Prof. Dmitri Bondarenko, Deputy Director of the Institute, discussed with Dr.

5-7 December 2016 members of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in annual 39th Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) in Perth, Western Austalia.