Andrzej Zajączkowski

Andrzej Zajączkowski (27 May 1922 in Lublin – 16 December 1994 in Warsaw) was a Polish sociologist, cultural anthropologist, and Africanist. In 1978 he was made professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw; he became the director of the Center for Studies on Non-European Countries (Polish Academy of Sciences) in 1981. He specialized in historical sociology and the sociology of developing countries. He lectured at universities in Ghana and Uganda.

His most notable works include

• Główne elementy kultury szlacheckiej w Polsce. Ideologia a struktury społeczne (1961)
• Niepodległość Konga a kolonializm belgijski (1968)
• Muntu dzisiaj. Studium afrykanistyczne (1970)
• Szlachta polska. Kultura i struktura (1993).