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Grants: Masters in Southern Urbanism at the African Centre for Cities for 2021

African Centre for Cities (ACC) – University of Cape Town

/ Research, Doctorate/PhD

Job: MA & PhD Scholarships and Postdoc Fellowships - South African Research Chair

Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) – University of the Western Cape

/ Doctorate/PhD

Job: UEA-Copenhagen joint PhD Scholarship in Religion and Social Change in Africa

International Development – University of East Anglia

4th CODESRIA/ZASB Summer School 2020
/ Research, Doctorate/PhD

Call: 4th CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Centre for African Studies in Basel (ZASB) call for applications for their 4th Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa.

/ Doctorate/PhD

Job: PhD scholarship "The resurgence of customary authority in contemporary Democratic Republic of Congo"

Institute of Development Policy (IOB) – University of Antwerp

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Sonja Merten becomes a member of the ZASB Directorate

At its meeting of 2 June, the Steering Committee of the Centre for African Studies Basel elected Sonja Merten as a member of the Directorate.

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Publication: Women and Migration

In her contribution to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Lesley Nicole Braun explores African women’s experiences of migration and transregional movements during the colonial period.

Call: SSAS 6th Swiss Researching Africa Days

Swiss Society for African Studies (Bern, 23-24 October 2020)

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Job: fepa Praktikum (rund 40%)

Fonds für Entwicklung und Partnerschaft in Afrika (fepa)

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Publication: Becoming/Being Gã, Straddling ‘Spaces,’ and Negotiating Boundaries in the Gold Coast Christian ‘Model Town’ (Abokobi), ca. 1860–1980

This article by Ernest Sewordor analyses the model town Abokobi established by the Basel Mission completely outside the sociopolitical ambit of an existing Accra polity.

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