Perspectives on Africa from the Fourth American-Soviet Symposium on Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

The fourth meeting of the U. S.-Soviet Symposium on Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa was held in Moscow, July 11-14, 1988. The American delegation is a national representation of American Africanists, led by Carl G. Rosberg, the Director of the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. The symposium, which has been held bi-annually since 1982, alterately in the USA and the USSR, is an activity of the American Council of Learned Societies USSR Academy of Sciences, administered in the United States by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). Approximately twenty host country scholars and ten from the visiting country participate in each symposium.