Knowledge Production, Forms and Platforms

[Translate to English:] USAKOS Ausstellung in Maputo

This key area addresses the following questions: What are the conditions for producing knowledge on Africa, and how do these affect the quality and outcomes of research? Who do we produce knowledge on Africa for? What does it mean to produce “postcolonial” knowledge on Africa? How can we engage with the asymmetries that continue to characterize African Studies, in which Northern institutions and researchers play a dominant role? How can our research inform broader public debates?

News

18 Dec 2024 / Studies

Joint teaching project: "To you, Basel is a city. To us, Basel is a church"

02 Dec 2024 / Research

Publication: “African Studies, or How to Make the Canon Apocryphal”

18 Sep 2024 / Studies

The Basel Mission and its Legacies: Second part of a Ghanaian-Swiss teaching project

Events

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Projects

Research project

African Contributions to Global Health

This interdisciplinary research project investigates knowledge, practices and applications related to the improvement of health and healthcare which have been developed or designed in Africa, and have become relevant globally – or have the potential to do so.

Research project

Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies

The research project uses concepts developed in the global South to examine political crises in Europe. Ultimately, it aims at developing new methodological and theoretical perspectives on comparison and on the Area Studies.

Postdoc program

Pilot African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA)

PAPA addresses up-and-coming researchers based in Francophone African. The goal is to strengthen basic research in the humanities and social sciences and represent it in a self-confident manner vis-à-vis other research environments.