Convenors: Dmitri Bondarenko (Institute for African Studies)and Petr Skalník
We decided to organise a workshop on The topic of the workshop was an attempt both to refer to recent events in Africa, above all the “African year”, 60 years after the granting of formal independence to many states in Africa, with many public events and commemorations on the respective National Days, and to revive an older topic of Africanist anthropology. The attendance of the workshop was fine and the papers fascinating; we successfully improvised by presenting Karel’s perfectly prepared paper +ppt) despite his absence.