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Basel Summer School in African Studies: "Honouring Mudimbe: Rethinking Research through African Thought"

The Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB calls for applications for the 7th Basel Summer School in African Studies, which will take place from 8 to 12 September 2025. This year’s Summer School honours Valentin-Yves Mudimbe’s work and…

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Julia Büchele receives Teaching Excellence Award

Julia Büchele was honored in the category "Service to Teaching" with the Teaching Excellence Award of the University of Basel. Participation in this year’s Teaching Excellence Awards was higher than ever before: 801 nominations were…

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Publication: "Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa"

Jon Schubert’s essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges and realities of climate…

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Publication: "Defining the noma research agenda"

A new publication by Swiss TPH and partners defines a global research agenda to tackle noma – a devastating and life-threatening disease mainly affecting children living in extreme poverty. The publication draws on the outcomes of a…

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Publication: "Upending coloniality: Race and infrastructure from Ghana's urban gold-mining hinterlands"

Ernest Sewordor's article questions the linear and determinist way coloniality has been deployed in the extant literature on infrastructure, by expanding the term to reflect a spectrum of racial politics dominated by metropolitan mining…

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The ZASB moves to Bluesky

The ZASB now has an account on the social media platform Bluesky in addition to its existing profiles on Linkedin, Instagram and Facebook. The activities on X are discontinued.

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Publication: "Space is the Ultimate Luxury. Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestral Land in Namibia"

This book co-authored by Luregn Lenggenhager provides a historical and contemporary narrative of African farmers in the South of Namibia and their struggle for access to their ancestral land.

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Publication: "Cultivating Race: Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa, c. 1900–1950"

Julia Tischler's book examines the intersections and relationships between scientific knowledge in farming and race politics in early twentieth-century South Africa.

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Publication: "Women and Gendered Roles in the History of Diamond Mining in Colonial Ghana"

Relying on archival, oral, and visual sources, Ernest Sewordor's article highlights women’s involvement in colonial Ghana’s diamond industry in different capacities - as discoverers, washers, licensed prospectors and dealers.

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Basel STUDY: New CAS programs in anti-corruption and asset recovery

The Basel Institute on Governance in conjunction with the University of Basel now offers advanced postgraduate qualifications in anti-corruption and asset recovery. The programs combine advanced research, real-world insights, practical…

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