Eigene News

«Koloniales Denken wirkt überall nach»

Tanja Hammel im "Tagesanzeiger" über das koloniale Erbe der Schweiz

«Alltagsrassismus ist schwer wegzukriegen»

Elísio Macamo in der "Zeit" zur Black-Lives-Matter-Bewegung in der Schweiz
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/ Forschung

Publication: Decolonising the Academy: A Case for Convivial Scholarship (Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2019)

Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Carl Schlettwein Lecture makes a plea for not just conversations across disciplines but also the integration of popular epistemologies into scholarship. The lecture was held in the frame of the conference "Africa and …

/ Studium

Black Lives Matter: Statement by students of the MA African Studies

As a response to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, the students of the Master's program African Studies issued a statement.

/ Forschung

Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2019 is published

Basler Afrika Bibliographien | Centre for African Studies
4th CODESRIA/ZASB Summer School 2020

/ Forschung, Doktorat

Call: 4th CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Centre for African Studies in Basel (ZASB) call for applications for their 4th Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa.

/ Organisation, People

Sonja Merten wird Mitglied des ZASB-Präsidiums

Das Leitungsgremium des Zentrums für Afrikastudien Basel hat an seiner Sitzung vom 2. Juni Sonja Merten ins dreiköpfige Präsidium gewählt.
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Publication: Women and Migration

In her contribution to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Lesley Nicole Braun explores African women’s experiences of migration and transregional movements during the colonial period.

Call: SSAS 6th Swiss Researching Africa Days

Swiss Society for African Studies (Bern, 23-24 October 2020)
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Publication: Becoming/Being Gã, Straddling ‘Spaces,’ and Negotiating Boundaries in the Gold Coast Christian ‘Model Town’ (Abokobi), ca. 1860–1980

This article by Ernest Sewordor analyses the model town Abokobi established by the Basel Mission completely outside the sociopolitical ambit of an existing Accra polity.