Report: Africa Days 2015 – 2nd Ethio-Czech Conference on Africa (Pilsen, 15.-16.10.2015)

The conference represents an important stepping-stone in the cooperation of the Czech Centre for African Studies based at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, where the conference was organized, and the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. It was also a continuation of a series of previous meetings and an exhibition (20th century Revisited: Relations between former Czechoslovakia and Ethiopia) that had been on show from October 1st to November 30th at the Ethnographic Museum of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Africa Days 2015 (2nd Ethio-Czech Conference on Africa) was the fourth event of its kind organized or co-organized by the Centre of African Studies in Pilsen since 2013. Last year, the 1st Central European African Studies Conference was hosted in Pilsen, and later that year, the 1st Ethio-Czech Conference on Africa was co-organized by Jimma University (Ethiopia) and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Czech Republic).