Migrations in the contemporary world: A case of Africa. Cultural and social issues, Helena E. Myeya, Maciej Ząbek (Eds.), Migrations in the contemporary world: A case of Africa. Cultural and social issues, Bernardinum: Pelplin 2020.

The first part of this book, devoted to the internal human mobility in Tanzania itself, commences with the article by Christopher Mulungu and Helena Myeya, two researchers from Mkwawa University College of Education from Iringa, who made an attempt to study the factors spawning the spatial mobility and its effects in Ileje district, situated in the peripheral region of Songwe in Tanzania close to the borders of Zambia and Malawi. The second chapter in this volume, written by Marius Emmanuel, an employee of the Ministry of Home Affairs, relates to the littleknown issues of security connected with the influx of refugees from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Tanzania. The third chapter was written by the international team of Swahili language researchers and experts: Fokasa Nchimbi from Mkwawa University College of Education, Sterling Roop from Norway and Jay Boss Rubin and Sarah Delaney from the USA. The chapter is also devoted to unveil refugee problems but from a rare, in this type of studies, linguistic perspective. The next chapter, written by Iddy Ramadhani Magoti from the Department of History at the University in Dar es Salaam, is a historical essay developed following the archival research on Kenyan diaspora in Tanzania. It should be noted here that the author uses the term “diaspora” in a slightly different sense than commonly known. The last two chapters in this part were written by Polish anthropologists conducting ethnographic research in Tanzania. The first of them, written by Elżbieta Wiejaczka from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, pertains to spatial mobility of the Maasai. The article by Olga Pawlik, from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Warsaw University, is devoted to the traditional medical doctors (waganga), more often moving from rural areas to the largest urban centres in Tanzania.

The second part of this volume contains texts written exclusively by Polish scholars, based mainly on qualitative studies conducted in other African countries, but not only, and sometimes also concerning the very migration processes as well as cultural phenomena accompanying them. The aim of the first text, written by Piotr Cichocki, an anthropologist from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Warsaw University, is the analysis of links between the indigenous African religious practices from the Northern Region of Malawi and the exterritorial migrations of the population. The next text is a historical essay written by Zofia Gralak from the

Institute of Art History of Łodź University on migrating artists. The author of the third text is Nagmeldin Karamalla-Gaiballa, an independent scholar, an immigrant from Sudan, active in the Polish African Society. His text concerns the role of the Sudanese diaspora in the success of the revolution that overthrew the regime of dictator Omar al-Bashir. Another article, for which migrations are only one of the reference points, is the text written by Father Mariusz Boguszewski from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw8 about the history of freedom and religious tolerance in Poland. The next text, written by Father Jarosław Rożański, also representing the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, refers, however, to a direct analysis of migration processes in Africa, although on the example of a very local case study. The article is based on both historical and qualitative field studies, concerns migration of members belonging to a small Gidar ethnic group from North Cameroon. The article by M. Brzezińska in this volume discusses clandestine migrations of West Africans to Europe, based on research in Guinea-Bissau and the Gambia. The volume ends with two texts, one by Maciej Ząbek and the second one by Wojciech Trojan, anthropologists specialising in refugee studies and anthropology of law, associated with the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Warsaw University. Both articles, based on field observations in refugee camps in Kenya and Somaliland, are thematically interrelated.

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