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New Starting Grant at ZASB: "Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change"

The innovative and interdisciplinary SNSF Starting Grant project by Luregn Lenggenhager is situated at the intersection of environmental history, environmental humanities and African Studies.

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In den Medien: "Neue Proteste in Mosambik - ein Wendepunkt?"

In einem Artikel der Deutschen Welle schätzt Elísio Macamo die Lage in Mosambik nach den Wahlen und den darauffolgenden Protesten ein.

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Publication: "African History between Ghana and Switzerland. Essays Honouring Paul Jenkins"

This collection edited by Ernest Sewordor and Anne Beutter retraces the academic path of the British historian-cum-archivist Paul Jenkins. The essays celebrate, engage, interrogate, and push beyond Jenkins' numerous publications and ongoing…

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Henri-Michel Yéré wins Rotary - PEN Club International Poetry Award

Henri-Michel Yéré has been awarded the Rotary - PEN Club International Award for his poetry book “Polo kouman/Polo parle” published in 2023. The Rotary - PEN Club International awards were presented for the first time in Paris on 4 October…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

The Basel Mission and its Legacies
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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…

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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…

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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.

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