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Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika
Die Afrikaforschung in Basel blickt auf eine lange Tradition in diversen Institutionen in der Region zurück und wird durch das Bekenntnis der Universität Basel zur Forschung zu, in, mit und für Afrika weiter gefördert. Unser Zentrum ist die Schnittstelle für den Austausch zwischen den verschiedenen Disziplinen und Fakultäten sowie den ausseruniversitären Partnerinstitutionen im Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika.
Auf der Grundlage der vorhandenen Kompetenzen und Forschungsinteressen setzt das Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika Schwerpunkte in sechs Forschungsbereichen. Zudem verfügen die angeschlossenen Fachbereiche, Departemente und Institutionen über jeweils eigene Forschungsprofile.
Forschungsbereiche
Die Forschung in den fünf Kernbereichen trägt dazu bei, wichtige Lücken im Verständnis des raschen Wandels afrikanischer Gesellschaften zu schliessen, konzeptionelle und methodische Herausforderungen in der interdisziplinären und disziplinären Forschung anzugehen und die sozioökonomische Entwicklung auf dem Kontinent voranzutreiben.
Fachbereiche, Departemente und Partnerorganisationen
Das Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika basiert auf den Kompetenzen und Aktivitäten verschiedener Forschungsgruppen, Fachbereiche und Departemente der Universität Basel und von Partnerorganisationen. Sie alle tragen zur Forschung zu, in, mit und für Afrika sowie zu Lehre und Ausbildung am ZASB bei.
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Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies
Twice per year, the Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) reports on its members' activities and publications, and announces upcoming events. The current newsletter includes reports on the Hans W. Debrunner Symposium,…/ Forschung
Podcast: "On Materiality" - with Carine Ayélé Durand
What can be gained from discussing Materiality, as opposed to simply talking about objects? This episode of the Ethnographic Imagination Basel podcast examines what it means to engage with objects, substances, and textures. Carine Ayélé…
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Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies
Twice per year, the Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) reports on its members' activities and publications, and announces upcoming events. The current newsletter includes reports on the Hans W. Debrunner Symposium,…Aktuelle Publikationen
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| Temitope Christina Adebayo-Ojo (Epidemiology) | Developing an air quality health index for Cape Town, 2001-2016 | |
| Faisal Nooh Ali (Epidemiology) | Epidemiological and clinical investigations of chronic oncommunicable diseases in Eritrean refugees living in Ethiopia and Switzerland | |
| Mamane Tassiou Amadou (Anthropology) | Youth and public sphere in Niger: dynamics of the ‘fadas’ of Zinder | Profile |
| Olalekan Oluwaseyi Arowosegbe (Epidemiology) | Constructing surface level particulate matter concentration statistical models and investigating the association between particulate matter air pollution and adverse health outcomes in South Africa | |
| Samuel Bachmann (African Studies) | The Future of African Heritage in Switzerland | |
| Miriam Badoux (Anthropology) | Corruption, Conflict and Cities in East and West Africa | |
| Silvia Balzan (Anthropology) | The work of Amâncio (Pancho) Guedes for the Swiss Mission. An ethnographic and historical account of modernist colonial architecture in postcolonial Mozambique | |
| Thomas Betschart (Urban Studies) | How Transport Infrastructure shapes Territory in Contemporary Africa | Profile |
| Stephanie Bishop (African Studies) | Zambian Water Diaries: Technology in Practice | |
| Andrea Christina Buhl-Colmsee (Anthropology) | Images of Palliative Care in Tanzania – A Hospital-Ethnography in a Cancer Clinic in Dar es Salaam | Profile |
| Jung Yeon (Jacqui) Cho (Political Science) | ||
| Raja Daoua (Economics) | Emerging Trends, Developments and Opportunities of Islamic Finance: The Moroccan Case | |
| Sharmarke Jama Dugsiye (Sociology) | Pastoral Conflict Management and the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Managing Pastoral Conflicts, Somali Region, Ethiopia | |
| Maria Esther Leticia Eburi Losoha (Epidemiology) | Improvement of immunization uptake among pregnant women in Equatorial Guinea: Mixed methods approach | |
| Tolulope Esther Fadeyi (History) | Engendering the Colony: Maternal Health, Indigenous Knowledge and European Medicine in Southwest Nigeria, 1925-1960 | |
| Anaïs Galli (Epidemiology) | Evaluating the effects of handwashing stations and hygiene promotion in primary health care facilities in the context of humanitarian emergencies | |
| Samantha Gamez (Political Science) | ||
| Jennifer Giroux (Anthropology) | Violence Next to Peace: Toggling between social spaces in the Niger Delta | |
| Andrea Graf (History) | Out of Sight? Bilharzia in Madagascar as a Global History of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’, 1950 to the present | |
| Kai Florian Herzog (History) | Violent Encounters: Practices and Perceptions of Violence in Southern Namibia and the Northern Cape, c. 1880-1910 | Profile |
| Max Hufschmidt (History) | The Last Missionary Frontier: Health Care, Power, and Development in Lesotho in the 20th Century | |
| Olutoyin Ikuteyijo (Epidemiology) | Understanding Sexual and Reproductive health of Female Adolescents and Experience of Gender-Based Violence in Slum Areas of Southwest Nigeria | |
| Franziska Jenni (Anthropology) | Art/articulations: Art and the formation of Social Space in African Cities | |
| Seyram Kaali (Epidemiology) | A Prospective Cohort Study on Early Life Household Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Childhood | |
| Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba (African Studies) | ||
| Aliya Karim (Epidemiology) | A Systems-Wide Analysis of the RAcE Programme: A Multi-Case Health System Study of an Integrated Community Case Management Program in Five African Countries | |
| Kingdom Karuwo (African Studies) | ||
| Eva Kocher (History) | The formation of the Sub-Saharan insurance industry in the second half of the 20th century | Profile |
| Katienegnimin Seydou Konate (French Literature) | Bestiaire et biotope végétal dans la littérature de jeunesse de Côte d’Ivoire | |
| Frida Lyonga (African Studies) | Homosexuality and the African: Change and Persistence of Homophobic Attitudes among African Migrants in Switzerland | Profile |
| Herry Mapesi (Epidemiology) | Non-communicable diseases in people living with HIV in Rural Africa: tackle the double burden | |
| Matthias Maurer Rueda (Sociology) | Immigration and political identity: Ethnographic studies of retribalization among political activists in Switzerland | |
| Sindi-Leigh McBride (African Studies) | Political settlements and public spheres: comparative analysis of economic sophistication in South Africa and Nigeria | |
| Francis Daudi Mlacha (History) | The history of insurances in East Africa | |
| Barbara Müller (African Studies) | The Student Movement and the Matabeleland Conflict in Zimbabwe | |
| Kirubel Mussie (Biomedical Ethics) | Ethical issues in the care of older people in Ethiopia | |
| Bédjou Prisca N'Dri (Epidemiology) | Malaria in Elibou region, south of Côte d’Ivoire: transmission and insecticide resistance | |
| Brian Ngwenya (History) | Order, Politics and Memory: African Police and State-Making in Zimbabwe, c1960-90 | Profile |
| Lotte Nielsen (Anthropology) | Making the City: The Politics and Potentiality of Urban Uncertainty in Johannesburg, South Africa | Profile |
| Belinda Nimako (Epidemiology) | Linkages between Natural Resource Extraction Projects and the Health System for Sustainable Development | |
| Nesisa Analisa Nyathi (Environmental Sciences) | Remote Sensing in Krüger Park | |
| Corinne Othenin-Girard (Sociology) | Transhumanism, Technological Colonisation, Functional Diversity | |
| Julia Rensing (African Studies) | Namibia-Germany: A Post-Colonial Heterotopia? Narratives and Negotiations of Colonial Legacies in Namibia and Germany | Profile |
| Marta Rudnicka (Anthropology) | Tastescapes in Ghana. Eating, tasting and culinary praxis in northern Ghana | Profile |
| Melina Rutishauser (Anthropology) | Participation in Social Health Protection: Women’s Engagement in Tanzania | Profile |
| Melanie Sampayo Vidal (African Studies) | Violences et Résistances dans le théâtre postcolonial au Mali | Profile |
| Samuel Sarpanin (Theology) | Akan Christology - towards a contemporary Akan Christology | |
| Giulia Scotto (Urban Studies) | Oil Infrastructure and decolonization: ENI’s “African Scheme” | Profile |
| Ernest Sewordor (Urban Studies) | British Imperial Imagination, Colonial Infrastructure, and the Cape-to-Cairo Road, c.1890-1960 | Profile |
| Shreya Shrikhande (Epidemiology) | Effects of climate change on cardiovascular diseases in South Africa | |
| Mathias Tanner (Theology) | Interfaith Peacebuilding. Examining the Impact of Interfaith Peacebuilding Initiatives in a Violent Political Conflict with an Ethno-Religious Dimension in Jos, Nigeria | |
| Ufuk Tepebas (African Studies) | The role of Turkey’s development assistance policy in its foreign trade with East Africa | Profile |
| Pius Jonas Vögele (African Studies) | Afrofuturism Echoes Back – Hip Hop’s Sonic Fictions from Black Atlantis | |
| Cita Wetterich (Gender Studies) | Violence against male Refugees – Patterns, Factors and Consequences for Individuals and Communities | Profile |
| Helene Widmer (Sociology) | ||
| Ursula Wüthrich Grossenbacher (African Studies) | Impact of religion/spirituality (R/S) on the outcome of HIV care in different health settings in rural and urban Zimbabwe with a special focus on adolescent patients |
| Samuel Andreas Admasie (African Studies) | Dynamics of Assertive Unionism in Ethiopia | 2018 | |
| Michael Aeby (History) | Zimbabwe's Gruelling Transition: Interim power-sharing and conflict management in Southern Africa | 2016 | |
| Balz Andrea Alter (Science of Religion) | Back from greener pastures | 2021 | |
| Carole Ammann (Anthropology) | The Work of State Imageries: Women and the Imageries of the State in Guinea | 2017 | |
| Alain Amstutz (Clinical Research) | Supporting Lesotho on the way towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets: Operational and clinical research addressing HIV/AIDS care in resource-limited settings | 2021 | |
| Kpongbo Etienne Angora (Epidemiology) | Population genetic structure and hybridization of schistosomes in schoolchildren in Côte d’Ivoire | 2020 | |
| Christopher Barratt (Environmental Sciences) | Using Next Generation Sequencing data to estimate the Biodiversity value of the Coastal Forests of East Africa | 2017 | |
| Demissie Ferdissa Bekele (Political Science) | Ethnic Decentralization and Negotiating Statehood in Urban Ethiopia: A Case Study of Adama and Hawassa Cities | 2014 | |
| Owusuaa Adwoa Bobie (Sociology) | Rebranding African, Reclothing Africa: The influence of Emerging Designers in the Production of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Nigerian Fashion Industry | 2020 | |
| Melanie Boehi (History) | A South African social garden: people, plants and multispecies histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden | 2018 | |
| Nina Brunner (Epidemiology) | Treatment seeking and case management for suspected severe malaria in the context of implementing rectal artesunate | 2021 | |
| Julia Büchele (Sociology) | Expat Spouses in Kampala, Uganda: An Ethnography of Migration from the Global North | 2017 | |
| Gabriela Bueno Bittencourt Silva (Environmental Sciences) | Lacuna Mozambique : adding an important piece to the African jigsaw puzzle | 2017 | |
| Beryl Akoth Bwong (Environmental Sciences) | At the crossroads of two biodiversity hotspots : the biogeographic patterns of Shimba Hills, Kenya | 2017 | |
| Anna Christen (Anthropology) | Walking Together. Perils of Participation in Anthropology and Philosophy of Action. A Case Study in Post-Apartheid South Africa | 2020 | |
| Dominik Dietler (Epidemiology) | Impact of mining projects on environmental determinants of health and associated health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: insights for guiding impact assessment practice | 2020 | |
| Jin Ding (African Studies) | China in Africa: Perspectives on development and emergence | 2020 | |
| Marcel Dreier (History) | Health Care, Welfare, and Development in Rural Africa: Catholic health services in Ifakara/Tanzania in the 20th century | 2015 | |
| Mari Dumbaugh (Epidemiology) | Influencing Factors on the Utilization of Maternal Health Services and Uptake of Family Planning in the Context of Conditional Cash Transrers, South Kivu, DRC | 2017 | |
| Michelle Engeler (Anthropology) | Youth and the State in Guinea: Meandering Lives | 2013 | |
| Séverine Erismann (Epidemiology) | Children’s intestinal parasite and nutritional patterns in face of integrated school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in central Burkina Faso | 2017 | |
| Thomas Fürst (Epidemiology) | Assessing morbidity and burden due to neglected tropical diseases at different geographical scales | 2015 | |
| Jana Gerold (Anthropology) | Full of Life: old age and care in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 2013 | |
| Jacob Geuder (Sociology) | Visualizing Urban Struggles: Video Activism as Utopian Practice | 2020 | |
| Christine Giustizieri-Haberstroh (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies) | Writing the City. Narratives of Johannesburg’s Urban Space in Contemporary South African Literature | 2014 | |
| Lianne Gonsalves (Epidemiology) | Understanding the role of pharmacies as contraceptive outlets for young people (ages 18-24) in Coastal Kenya | 2020 | |
| Andrea Grolimund (Anthropology) | Ageing, Agency and Health in Dar es Salaam | 2018 | |
| Nanina Guyer (History) | Picturing Secrecy - A History of the Visualization of "Secret Societies" in Historical Photographs from West Africa | 2015 | |
| Tanja Hammel (History) | Shaping Science and Society at the Cape – A Relational History of Mary Elizabeth Barber | 2018 | |
| Barbara Heer (Anthropology) | Spaces of Encounter and Unequal Neighbourhoods. A Comparative Ethnography of Agency, Space and Difference in Maputo and Johannesburg | 2015 | |
| Katharina Elisabeth Heitz Tokpa (Anthropology) | Trust and Distrust in Rebel-Held Côte d’Ivoire | 2013 | |
| Jerry Hella (Epidemiology) | Understanding the epidemiology and transmission of tuberculosis among adults in rural and urban Tanzania | 2021 | |
| Sara Anna Hellmüller (Political Science) | Bridging the Gap – Examining Local Dimensions of International Peacebuilding in the DR Congo | 2014 | |
| Eveline Hürlimann (Epidemiology) | Effects of parasitic infections on clinical outcomes, self-rated quality of life and physical fitness in Côte d’Ivoire | 2014 | |
| Adrian Indermaur (Environmental Sciences) | Comparative ecology and phylogeography in east African cichild fishes | 2016 | |
| Verena JeanRichard-dit-Bressel (Epidemiology) | Crowding at Lake Chad: An Integrated Approach to Demographic and Health Surveillance of Mobile Pastoralists and Their Animals | 2013 | |
| Stephen Asol Kapinde (Theology) | Political Sermons in Kenyas Quest for Democratic Governance between 1986 and 2010: A case Study of the selected sermons from the three Anglican Clergy | 2020 | |
| Andrea Kaufmann (Anthropology) | Spaces of Imagination Associational Life and the State in Post-War, Urban Liberia | 2013 | |
| Kristina Keitel (Epidemiology) | e-POCT: Improving health outcomes of febrile childresn in Tanzania through innovative point-of-care technologies at the primary care level | 2017 | |
| Rita Kesselring (Anthropology) | Bodies of Truth. Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa | 2013 | |
| Andrea Azizi Kifyasi (History) | Neither Saviour nor Exploiter: A Historical Study of China's Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania | 2021 | |
| Juliane Krenz (Environmental Sciences) | Land degradation and Carbon erosion in Southern Africa | 2019 | |
| Maren Larsen (Urban Studies) | Worlding Home: Peacekeepers, Camp Space, and Urbanity in Goma, DRC | 2020 | |
| Anne Laube (Sociology) | The Organisation of Violence in the Actions of the Lord’s Resistance Army | 2018 | |
| Andrea Leuenberger (Epidemiology) | Investigating health impacts and equity in communities surrounding large natural resource extraction projects in sub-Saharan Africa: a contribution to sustainable development | 2021 | |
| Hans Christoph Liedtke (Environmental Sciences) | The Evolution of Terrestrial Breeding in African Amphibians | 2014 | |
| Susann Ludwig (African Studies) | La chance: En Ethnography. University Graduates making Sense of Uncertainty in Bamako, Mali | 2018 | |
| Ulrike Lühe (Political Science) | Developing the African Union Transitional Justice Policy. A Study in the Practice(s) of Expertise in International Relations | 2021 | |
| Bobby Luthra Sinha (African Studies) | A Comparative Interpretation of Peoples’ Movements: Actors, Evolving Consciousness and Democratic Imagination in India and South Africa | 2016 | |
| Dennis Massue (Epidemiology) | Long-Lasting Insecticide Treated Bed Net (LLINs) for malaria control in Tanzania: Barriers to physical and chemical protection | 2019 | |
| Nancy Matowo (Epidemiology) | Dynamics of insecticide resistance in Anopheles arabiensis and Culex pipiens complex, and its associations to agricultural practices in southern Tanzania | 2021 | |
| Céline Mbilo (Epidemiology) | Rabies Epidemiology in DR Congo and Chad | 2021 | |
| James Merron (African Studies) | Travelling technologies of the environment: Knowledges of water management and the transformation of land in South Africa | 2017 | |
| Grace Mhalu (Epidemiology) | Identifying community determinants of health seeking behaviour and the contribution of socio-cultural and gender aspects to improve tuberculosis case detection in Tanzania | 2019 | |
| Shakuntala Mhlanga (Epidemiology) | An epidemiological cohort study of children and adolescents investigating neurobehavioural effects from pesticide exposure and e-media use in South Africa | 2020 | |
| Janet Michel (Epidemiology) | Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policy roll-out experience in South Africa : how and why policy-practice gaps come about in a UHC context | 2021 | |
| Langelihle Mlotshwa (Epidemiology) | Exploring incident HIV in Pregnant Women and Sexual Risk Behaviours and Practices in Soweto, South Africa | 2019 | |
| Olivier Moreillon (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies) | Reading the Post-Apartheid City. Urbanite and Capetonian Literary Topographies in Selected Texts Beyond 2000 | 2017 | |
| Betty Bukenya Nambuusi (Epidemiology) | Assessing the effects of interventions on child and maternal health-related outcomes in Uganda | 2019 | |
| Peter Ayoola Oderinde (African Studies) | The role of Internet in migrants’ Christianity: A case study of Nigerian Pentecostal churches in Switzerland | 2020 | |
| Victoria Amma Agyeiwaah Osei-Bonsu (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies) | Representations of the African Other in Selected Works of Joseph Conrad | 2018 | |
| Henry Frimpong Owusu (Epidemiology) | Insecticide Resistance Monitoring – a review of current methodology | 2016 | |
| Joschka Philipps (Sociology) | Crystallizing Contention. A cumulative dissertation on youth, politics, and urban violence in Conakry, Kampala, and beyond | 2016 | |
| Myra Posluschny-Treuner (Political Science) | Land grabbing or an essential move towards development? A case study of Ethiopia | 2017 | |
| Jamie Pring (Political Science) | Making the Middle: Localizing Inclusivity in the IGAD-led Mediation in South Sudan (2013-2015) | 2021 | |
| Sabine Renggli (Epidemiology) | Promoting Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania: An Evaluation of the Initiative to Strengthen Affordability and Quality of Health Care (ISAQH) | 2017 | |
| Aurélie A. Righetti (Epidemiology) | Aetiology of anaemia and public health implications in the Taabo health demographic surveillance system, south-central Côte d’Ivoire | 2014 | |
| Sandra Rubli (Political Science) | Transitional Justice and State-Formation in Burundi | 2014 | |
| Richard Faustine Sambaiga (Anthropology) | Sexual inter-subjectivity and the quest for social well-being : an ethnographic inquiry of adolescent sexuality in urban Southern Tanzania | 2013 | |
| Aïdas Sanogo (Anthropology) | Corruption, conflict and cities in West and East Africa | 2019 | |
| Khadeeja "Haddy" Sarr (African Studies) | Narratives of Identity, Multi-Sited Biographies, and Transnational Life-Modes of Highly Qualified Migrants. Senegambia Migrants in Switzerland and Swiss Migrants in Senegambia | 2021 | |
| Nicolas Schicketanz (History) | A History of Teacher Training Colleges in South Africa and the Effects of Teacher Training on Identity Formation | 2015 | |
| Pascal Schmid (History) | Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo. A history of health care delivery in rural Ghana, ca 1925 to 1980 | 2013 | |
| Sabine Schultz (Anthropology) | The Game of Personal Politics or How to Rule a Kingdom. The State of Affairs in Rey Bouba/North-East Cameroon. | 2017 | |
| Joëlle Schwarz (Epidemiology) | Family Planning in Burundi: Hegemonic Discourse, Reproductive Navigation and Embodied Experiences in a Fragile Context | 2021 | |
| Patricia Schwärzler (Epidemiology) | “ De nos jours, chacun fait ce qu’il veut ” ? Dynamiques des relations sociales et pratiques sexuelles dans le contexte du VIH/sida à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 2014 | |
| Kuwawenaruwa August Joachim Shayo (Epidemiology) | The effects of Jazia prime vendor system in complementing the existing pharmaceutical supply chain across public healthcare facilities in Tanzania | 2021 | |
| Julius Ssempira (Epidemiology) | Bayesian spatial-temporal modeling of malaria risk in Uganda during 2009-2016, and the effect of control interventions and health system strengthening | 2018 | |
| Sandra Staudacher (Anthropology) | Cosmopolitan Aging in Urban Zanzibar: Elderhood, Health and Transnational Care Spaces Related to Oman | 2019 | |
| Claudette Simone Sutherland (Epidemiology) | An elimination investment case (EIC) for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense (“sleeping sickness”) | 2016 | |
| Natalie Tarr (African Studies) | Interpreting the Administration: Burkina Faso's Courts in Translation | 2020 | |
| Sokhna Thiam (Epidemiology) | Spatial analysis of diarrhoea and environmental risk factors in an urban context in Senegal, West Africa | 2017 | |
| Albert Tibaijuka (African Studies) | Multinational Mines and Communities of Place: Revisiting the Stakeholder Dialogue Discourse from Geita, Tanzania | 2016 | |
| Frederik Unseld (Anthropology) | Making Art Work: Articulating Art and Urban Marginality in Kisumu, Kenya | 2020 | |
| Vladimir Wingate (Environmental Sciences) | Terrestrial ecosystem change monitoring: Satellite remote sensing the Namibian savannah biomes in the context of the global carbon cycle and local livelihoods | 2017 |