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Congratulations to our new graduates!
At the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, two of our MA students received their diplomas in African Studies alongside other young scholars from our wider network.
Congratulations to Xiao Meng and Julie Zingg who received their MA African Studies diploma on 16 September 2023!
Among the 60 graduates of the Faculty of Humanities there were six students (i.e., 10 percent of all graduates) who engaged with Africa-related topics, demonstrating the interest in and importance of the continent at the University of Basel. Congratulations therefore also go to Nuru Heritsialonina (Social Anthropology), David Maurer (Changing Societies), Naemi Meier (Art History), Ben Erpelding (History) and Florian Zenhäusern (History).
Their respective MA theses are detailed below:
Xiao Meng: Academic In/Equity: Gender and Ethnicity Imbalances in Authorship and Citation of Tropical Medicine
Julie Zingg: Kenianische Fairtrade-Rosen im Schweizer Blumenhandel. Zur Frage der Selbstbestimmung der kenianischen Akteur*innen während des Max Havelaar-Stiftung Pilotprojekts (2001–2005)
Nuru Heritsialonina: Westafrikanische Handelsperlen im ghanaischen Diskurs: Prozesse der Zuschreibungen in emischen Narrativen
David Maurer: Unlocking the Potential of UAVs in Tanzania: A Study of Innovation Processes and Open-Source Technology
Naemi Meier: Narrative dekolonialer Kunstpraxen in Archival Art. Besprochen an der beiden künstlerischen zeitgenössischen Positionen Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja und Vitjitua Ndjiharine
Ben Erpelding: Sklaverei und Kriegsgefangenschaft in den west-afrikanischen Missionsgebieten der 1870er Jahre. Neuentdeckung einer Zeit unter dem Volk der Asante
Florian Zenhäusern: «nothing in him that appeared barbarous»: Eine sinnesgeschichtliche Analyse der Zivilisiertheit in William Snelgraves Reisebericht "A new account of some parts of Guinea, and the slave trade", 1734
