I remember that we had, unfortunately, this ignorance of Africa and of the Soviet Union's collaboration with Africa. But today it's good that the situation has changed and there is much attention in Russian society. I'm not only talking about the political sphere; I'm just talking about random people. Much more attention has gone to Africa, and people are really interested in what's going on the continent. People know that Africa is not a country and that there are hundreds of thousands of cultures and languages, etc. And so learning through history is also very important because you will find answers to questions in the present-day collaboration between, for instance, Moscow or the ANC [African National Congress] or Russian people and South African people [....] when you do research, you discover that African nations and African peoples had their own agencies, had their own views about what's going on the continent, they had their own views about socialism and about capitalism and many other systems. This is very important to rediscover through collaboration with Southern African and African scholars,” Zelenova explained.
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