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Секция африканистов: «Чтения памяти Д. А. Ольдерогге» к 150-летию академика В. В. Бартольда (1869–1930). Ч. 2 255 It can be said from the onset that the works of Kenyan women authors who write for adolescent audience stand the farthest possible from what can be called purely entertaining or “escapist” literature. They do not tell their readers fantasy tales or romantic stories. In their works, Kenyan women writers address the burning problems of Kenyan youth. For example, a detailed treatment is given to the relational/cultural problems related to the ‘conversion’ into a high school student. Especially for the graduates of provincial schools, the transition from the more or less uniform ethnic/ cultural environment of their homes to the much more culturally diverse atmosphere of high schools presents multiple problems — from those of personal adaptation to problems of intercultural and interethnic strife. Other topical issues addressed by the writers include such “modernity-related” problems as indulgence into health-consuming habits like smoking, drinking and drugs use, pre-marital sex with all its consequences, juvenile crime, human trafficking and sexual exploitation, as well as asperities of cultural extraction, such as female genital mutilation, forced marriage, child labour, and education denial. The paper discusses these and other aspects using as research material several texts by Kenyan women authors in English (Florence Mbaya, Diana Gitau, Pasomi Mucha, Nancy Mwanzia) and Swahili (Clara Momanyi, Sheila Ryanga, Rayya Timammy, Brigid Simiyu, Catherine Ndungo). Alexander Zdanevich (FAAS, St Petersburg University, St Petersburg) The future of South African white community: identity crisis as the legacy of the apartheid past How do we see the future of South Africa? This seemingly simple question is not so easy to be answered. It is addressed to modern researchers from the recent past of this blessed land, filled with contradictory tragic events, hopes, attempts to correct mistakes that led to the set of problems of today South Africa. The apartheid period, which has covered almost half of the 20th century, is well- known. It occupied a prominent place in the Soviet period historiography. The reasons and the course of this process are well studied. However, the consequences of this pernicious phenomenon, which has become the past of the Republic of SouthAfrica (the SAR) inApril 1994, remain not fully understood in our country and abroad. This period formed the basis of the discussion that unfolded on the pages of monographs and publications in the periodical press, both in southern Africa and beyond. The discussion mentioned affected broad strata of the population of the SAR. Here are some questions that inevitably arise before South African society at the present historical stage. What to do with the unenviable legacy of the past closely related to the period of oppression of the black majority? Are modern African elites able to bring the country out of the impasse? Will there be a place for the white minority in multinational society?