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Leading House Region Africa Seed Funding 2020: SDGs in South Africa

The Leading House Region Africa calls for proposals for projects from Swiss academic institutions. Seed funding will be provided for partnerships with research institutions in South Africa, with particular focus on Limpopo province.…

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Annual Report of the Basel Institute on Governance

The Basel Institute on Governance published the annual report for the year 2019.
cover basel papers no 20 21

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Publication: Ethnographic Vignettes - Social Change and Social Encounters in Solwezi, Northwestern Zambia

In the latest double issue of the Basel Papers on Political Transformations, master students in Social Anthropology and African Studies engage with the question of how to present social change with the help of vignettes.
BAB

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Carl Schlettwein Foundation and Basler Afrika Bibliographien: Annual report 2019

The Carl Schlettwein Foundation and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien published their annual report for the year 2019.

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Swiss TPH supports Diagnostic Lab for Sars-CoV-2 in Equatorial Guinea

In an interview, Claudia Daubenberger of Swiss TPH speaks about the establishment a diagnostic laboratory for Sars-CoV-2 in Equatorial Guinea and the challenges associated with Sars-CoV-2 diagnostics in sub-Saharan Africa.
Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB)

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Wiedereröffnung der Bibliothek der Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB)

Die Bibliothek der Basler Afrika Bibliographien wird am 12. Mai 2020 wieder für die öffentliche Nutzung geöffnet.

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BAB Publications on Southern Africa: Catalogue 2020

The Preview Cataloge 2020 of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) is now available.
Cover Afrika-Bulletin 178

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Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 178: Afrikas Musik bewegt die Welt

Afrikanische Musik ist ein Exportschlager und unsere populäre Musik stark von Afrika geprägt.

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Commentary: Contagion and containment – Curtailing the freedom of movement in times of coronavirus

Kenny Cupers has published on EUROZINE an article as part of the ongoing miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Commentary: The normality of risk: African and European responses to Covid-19

On the blog Corona Times, Elísio Macamo argues that, while African countries should take the urgency of their Response to the Covid 19 pandemic seriously, there is no reason why Africans should do exactly the same as Europeans.