CONTENTS Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Marina L. Butovskaya. Introduction ... 5 I. Memory of the Historical Past as a Factor of Public Consciousness in Contemporary Africa Anastasia A. Banshchikova, Oxana V. Ivanchenko. Historical Memory of the 19th-Century Arab Slave Trade in Present-Day Tanzania: Between Family Trauma and State-Planted Tolerance ...........................….. 23 Lorenzo D'Angelo. Changing Environments, Occult Protests, and Social Memories in Sierra Leone .............. 46 Daria A. Zelenova. Local Memories of the Anti-apartheid Struggles: Rediscovering 'People's Democracy'........ 66 II. Legacy of the Past and Sociocultural Processesin Contemporary Africa Marina L. Butovskaya. Transformation of Traditional Rural Communities in East Africa .................. 85 Cecilia Pennacini. Religion, History and Society in the Great Lakes Region ........................... 115 Pino Schirripa. New Religious Movements in Africa from a Long-Term Perspective ..................…. 134 Emery Patrick Effiboley. Nation Building in Contemporary Benin Republic: The Role of Art, Museums, and Cultural Heritage .............................. 151 Asiya R. Khalitova. From Socialism to Post-Socialist Trauma: 'Pioneers' and 'Newcomers' in the Guinean Film Industry 162 III. Legacy of the Past and Political Processesin Contemporary Africa Jason Nkyabonaki. The Influence of Indigenous Administra-tion on Post-Independence Administration in Tanzania ….. 183 Jean-Claude Meledje. The Impacts of Pre-Colonial and Colonial Political Tradition on Social and Political Processes in Present-Day Côte d'Ivoire ...............…... 196