Badania Jana Czekanowskiego w międzyrzeczu Nilu i Konga oraz ich znaczenie dla historycznej i narodowej identyfikacji państw regionu (casus Rwandy)
Jan Czekanowski’s research in the area of Congo-Nile Divide and its meaning for the historical and national identification of the countries of the region (case of Rwanda)

Summary/Abstract: As an anthropologist of German scientific expedition in 1907–1909, Jan Czekanowski conducted research in the north-western territories of then German East Africa, in the area of Great Rift Valley in Central Africa, at the north-eastern borderlands of Congo Free State and in South Sudan. The findings of the research were included in a five-volume monograph entitled „Forschungen im Nil-Kongo-Zwischengebiet” (Leipzig 1911–1927), in numerous research papers and fragments of memoirs. To this day those publications hold great importance for the Africanists, anthropologists, linguists and sociologists. They are also a valuable source of information on the history of the countries of that region at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth century. This subject matter is still significant nowadays, especially with regard to the current Rwandan government's policy, aimed at the restoration of national identity of all Rwandans across ethnic divides.

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