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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.

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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.

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"Skin Color and Race in African History" - Lynn M. Thomas's Basel History Lecture available online

In her lecture, Lynn M. Thomas takes a layered approach to explain how and why skin lighteners became such commonplace and contentious commodities in South Africa. Due to the corona pandemic, the distinguished lecture organized by the…

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Publication: Growing Wild. The Correspondence of a Pioneering Woman Naturalist from the Cape

Tanja Hammel and Jasmin Rindlisbacher coedited the publication of Mary Elizabeth Barber's scientific correspondence. Barber was the first woman ornithologist in South Africa, an early archaeologist, keen botanist and interested…

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"The Coloniality of Infrastructure - Eurafrican Legacies": conference registration now open

Initially scheduled for June 2020, the conference will now take place online from 12 to 15 January 2021. Keynote speakers include Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui.

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Publication: Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges

The collection "Women and Photography in Africa" edited by Lorena Rizzo, Darren Newbury and Kylie Thomas draws on recent conceptual and methodological developments in photographic scholarship.

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Publication: The cosmic submarine—Yugen Blakrok’s sonar echoes

This article by Pius Jonas Vögele explores South African hip-hop artist Yugen Blakrok, applying Afrofuturism as a conceptual framework.

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