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Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies
Pandemic, Corona virus, lockdown, home office, economic and social crisis - unsurprisingly, these keywords of the year 2020 also echo in the latest newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies.
Social norms and poor services drive petty corruption in East Africa’s health sector
In an article on "The Conversation", Saba Kassa, Claudia Baez Camargo and Jacopo Costa present their research on petty corruption in the health sector of Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. They focus on behavioural drivers, such as the role of…
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Swiss TPH Symposium: Reshaping Healthcare Supply Chains
At the virtual Swiss TPH Winter Symposium, experts from academia, public administration, international organisations and the private sector came together to discuss how to achieve universal access to high quality, affordable medicines and…
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Publication: Anneliese and Ernst Rudolf Scherz’s ‘Ethnographic Object Collection’ from Namibia and Southern Africa
In this BAB working paper series, Lisa Roulet and Dag Henrichsen provide an introduction to the object collection of the Scherz archive at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and document each object with regard to available historical context…
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Stephen Kapinde erhält Preis der Theologischen Fakultät
Ganz herzlich gratulieren wir Stephen Kapinde, der von der Theologischen Fakultät für seine Dissertation ausgezeichnet wurde. Er beschreibt darin die Entwicklung des Verhältnisses der Anglikanischen Kirche zum Staat am Fallbeispiel des…
In den Medien: «Andrea Gmür argumentiert rassistisch»
Lorena Rizzo in einem Artikel in kath.ch (21. November 2020)
In den Medien: Die Basler Mission – eine ambivalente Rolle
Veit Arlt in der Reihe Neue Augen auf die Stadt von Bajour – 14. November 2020
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***CANCELLED*** Call for papers: 6th African History Day - Reflecting on African History Produced in Switzerland
The 6th African History Day will take place in Zurich and/or via Zoom on 11 March 2021. The focus is on collaborations with African partners. The event is an opportunity for historians working on Africa in Basel, Zurich and beyond to…
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Passing of Hans Buser (1934-2020)
With deep regret we have to share the news that on Friday 6 November 2020, on the day before his 86th birthday, Hans Buser passed away. We will remember him as a great networker and story teller, always ready to share and assist.