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Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies
Pandemic, Corona virus, lockdown, home office, economic and social crisis - unsurprisingly, these keywords of the year 2020 also echo in the latest newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies.
Social norms and poor services drive petty corruption in East Africa’s health sector
In an article on "The Conversation", Saba Kassa, Claudia Baez Camargo and Jacopo Costa present their research on petty corruption in the health sector of Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. They focus on behavioural drivers, such as the role of…
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Swiss TPH Symposium: Reshaping Healthcare Supply Chains
At the virtual Swiss TPH Winter Symposium, experts from academia, public administration, international organisations and the private sector came together to discuss how to achieve universal access to high quality, affordable medicines and…
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Publication: Anneliese and Ernst Rudolf Scherz’s ‘Ethnographic Object Collection’ from Namibia and Southern Africa
In this BAB working paper series, Lisa Roulet and Dag Henrichsen provide an introduction to the object collection of the Scherz archive at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and document each object with regard to available historical context…
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Faculty of Theology prize for Stephen Kapinde
We congratulate Stephen Kapinde who was honored by the Faculty of Theology for his doctoral thesis. In his research he describes the development of the relationship between the Anglican church and the state using post-colonial Kenya as a…
In the media: «Andrea Gmür argumentiert rassistisch»
Lorena Rizzo in an article on kath.ch (21. November 2020)![[Translate to English:] screenshot](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/2/csm_Screenshot_2020-11-23_115427_bajour_44ca047af4.png?1614934721)
In the media: Die Basler Mission – eine ambivalente Rolle
Veit Arlt in the series "Neue Augen auf die Stadt" on "Bajour" (14. November 2020)
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***CANCELLED*** Call for papers: 6th African History Day - Reflecting on African History Produced in Switzerland
The 6th African History Day will take place in Zurich and/or via Zoom on 11 March 2021. The focus is on collaborations with African partners. The event is an opportunity for historians working on Africa in Basel, Zurich and beyond to…
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Passing of Hans Buser (1934-2020)
With deep regret we have to share the news that on Friday 6 November 2020, on the day before his 86th birthday, Hans Buser passed away. We will remember him as a great networker and story teller, always ready to share and assist.