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Reflections on the Third European Students' Conference on African Studies
At the end of August 2024, the Third European Students' Conference on African Studies took place at the University of Basel. In total, 40 young scholars from universities across Europe and Africa - from Poland to Portugal and from South…
/ Forschung
Publication: "Magical math hand-waving"
Jon Schubert’s article examines the knowledge protocols of commercial risk forecasting to show how, despite strenuous efforts to render risk forecasts neutral and actionable, analysts construct risk in African countries in line with…
/ Forschung
Publication: "Elsewheres of the Unbuilt: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects"
The article co-authored by Maren Larsen and Kenny Cupers argues that understanding the effects of infrastructural expansion in the global South requires accounting for the ways in which projects are financed, planned, contested, contracted,…
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The Basel Mission and its Legacies: Second part of a Ghanaian-Swiss teaching project
“What’s God got to do with it?” At the end of the project's journey in the footsteps of the Basel Mission, the answer to this question – the title of one of the preparatory seminars – was clear: Quite a lot, whatever you may or may not…
/ Doktorat, Events
Course and lecture series: "Africa, Method, Theory"
This joint course and public lecture series brings Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (Queen’s University), Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Florida), Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University) and Jacob S. Dlamini (Princeton University) to Basel…
New album: "Inkumbulo" by Feya Faku
The album celebrates two decades of exchanges between jazz musicians from South Africa and Switzerland at the bird's eye jazz club facilitated by the Centre for African Studies.
/ Info
Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 195: "Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen"
Die vorletzte Ausgabe des Afrika-Bulletins wirft einige Schlaglichter auf aktuelle Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen auf dem Kontinent. In Südafrika, wo die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich weiter aufgegangen ist, haben die letzten Wahlen…
Third European Students' Conference on African Studies: Final program now online
Fourty presenters will gather at the Alte Universität on Thursday and Friday next week (29 and 30 August 2024). Please check out the rich program available on the conference website.
/ Forschung
Publication: "High expectations: Civil society participation in conflict early warning and response systems of the AU, ECOWAS and IGAD"
Michael Aeby's article examines how civil society organisations contributed to data collection, analyses, early warning and responses of conflict early warning and response systems in different contexts, and assesses their participation…