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Publication: Transfigurations of Aging: Everyday Self-Care in a Civil Servant Milieu of Dar es Salaam

Andrea Kaiser-Grollimund examines health-promoting self-care practices of older urban dwellers and transfigurations of the social imaginary of aging in Dar es Salaam’s middle class.

«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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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 …

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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.

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Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2019 is published

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

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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.

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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)