Eigene News

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/ Forschung

Quick guide to strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies

In a new quick guide, Claudia Baez Camargo explains the purpose, focus and value of strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies.
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/ Forschung

Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies

In the current edition of its bi-annual newsletter, the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) looks back at events, publications and new projects in the past six months and provides an outlook on up-coming activities.
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/ Forschung, Studium

Publication: Sites of Contestation. Encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann Collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien

This edited volume is the product of a long-term student engagement with the Dammann collection housed at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). The essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine,…
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/ Forschung, Organisation

ZASB - Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika: Jahresbericht 2020

Unser Jahresbericht vermittelt einen Überblick über die Aktivitäten der Mitglieder unseres Netzwerks in Forschung, Lehre und Wissenstransfer.
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Blog post: Performing in public space at the time of identity claims and political resistances

Lesley Nicole Braun provides a fascinating insight into Michèle Magema's artistic practice. The blog post is based on Magema's lecture as part of the lecture series "The Art of Intervention" in Basel in 2018.
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/ Weitere

"In our own words": Online lecture series on Africa’s contribution to scholarship

The Pilot African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA) in Bamako encourages young African scholars to engage with epistemological issues and with the contribution of knowledge acquired in Africa to the further development of science in general. In a…
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/ Forschung

Publication: Window of the World: Sino–African Encounters through Copies and Simulations

Based on interviews with Kenyan and South African contract workers at a Chinese theme park that features miniature copies of heritage sites from around the world, Lesley Nicole Braun explores ways in which culture is constructed and…
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/ Doktorat, People

In den Medien: Fehlt uns eine gemeinsame Welt?

Sindi-Leigh McBride als Gastautorin in der WoZ (20. Mai 2021)
Workshop ‘Research Network Africa’, 22 December 2017 (Veit Arlt)

/ News

Call for participation: ZASB Reflection, Practices and Ethics Day

The ZASB will hold its first Reflection, Practices and Ethics Day on 9 September 2021 and invites all members of the ZASB network, together with their international partners and partner organisations, to participate actively with a…
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/ Info

New BAB online platform: “Mapping Projects and Collaborations”

The Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) expanded their website. A new platform allows for a time and space travel through the BAB's institutional history. It offers information about a selection of partners, collaborations, projects and…