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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…
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In the media: «Andrea Gmür argumentiert rassistisch»

Lorena Rizzo in an article on kath.ch (21. November 2020)
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In the media: Die Basler Mission – eine ambivalente Rolle

Veit Arlt in the series "Neue Augen auf die Stadt" on "Bajour" (14. November 2020)
exhibition 'Usakos – Photographs Beyond Ruins'

/ Research, Events

***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.
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How memes in the DRC allow people to laugh at those in power – and themselves

On "The Conversation" Lesley Nicole Brown and Ribio Nzeza Bunketi Buse look at the creation and circulation of memes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They claims that popular memes have become identified as contagious-like diseases,…
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Publication: Association of activities related to pesticide exposure on headache severity and neurodevelopment of school-children in the rural agricultural farmlands of the Western Cape of South Africa

In a study published in Environment International by Swiss TPH and partners at the University of Cape Town, researchers found that children in South Africa who engage in pesticide-related farm activities often have more headaches and…
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Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 180: Covid-19 - Afrikanische Perspektiven auf die Krise

Während das Virus auf dem Kontinent relativ schwach anschlug, wird Afrika von den Folgen der Krise massiv getroffen.