The book is a dedication to the memory of Dr Zsuzsánna Biedermann via Hungarian scholarship
in African studies. It therefore can contribute to broadening the horizon of global
knowledge production on African issues. It delves into several subjects by a series
of case studies that analyze African and Eastern European connections, Africa’s developmental
states, development and urban segregation and processes of food crisis and migration,
while also paying particular attention to the country of Rwanda and the region of
East Africa, where Dr Biedermann also carried out field research.
This collection of unpublished papers by distinguished Hungarian scholars of African
studies is based on secondary and/or primary research results and uses various methodological
tools: archival research, field research and statistical analysis. In several instances,
certain papers had originally been designed in collaboration with her, but could not
take shape due to her death. It draws attention to Africa-related scholarship from
the “other Europe”, i.e., post-Communist Central and Eastern European countries.