March, 2008 - Every year Ms. Bożena Mierzejewska from the National Museum makes it possible for us to visit a (temporarily hidden) collection of Ethiopian crosses donated to the Museum by Wacław Korabiewicz. We cordially thank Ms. Mierzejewska for all information and inspiration.

Visits Yakubu Magaji

October - November, 2008 – Yakubu Magaji Azare, M.A., from the Department of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University, Kano was attached to the Department and continued his research on „A Morpho-Semantic Study of Hausa Concrete Deverbal Forms”. On 20th October he presented the results of his work during the staff meeting.

Visits Dr. Jean de Dieu Karangwa

April, 2009 (Erasmus visit) – Dr. Jean de Dieu Karangwa from INALCO in Paris presented lectures on “Language and Identity in Rwanda” and "The Swahili Language".

Visits Prof. Lionel Posthumus

May, 2009 – Prof. Lionel Posthumus from the University of Johannesburgu (SA) presented the following lectures during his stay at our Department: "Afrikaans as a creole language”, "Language Planning and Language Usage in South Africa", "Tense Systems of the Bantu languages".

Scientific session

December 2009 - In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the African Studies at the University of Warsaw the Department organised a one-day session Languages, cultures and societies of Africa in the process of transformation.