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Publication: Anthropogenic erosion-induced small-scale soil heterogeneity in South African rangelands

In their study, Juliane Krenz, Philip Greenwood and Nikolaus Kuhn analyze soil redistribution in a degraded rangeland in South Africa. Soil erosion in semi-arid drylands induced by land-use changes creates patchworks of soils and…

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Online Exhibition: "Don't say anything against telephone directories"

On the occasion of their 50th anniversary, the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) invite you to a new online exhibition. The exhibition sheds light on aspects of one key question: How do a library, an archive and a publishing house handle…

Teilnehmende Basel Summer School 2017
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Basel Summer School in African Studies 2021: How Political is Knowledge?

The ZASB calls for applications for the Basel Summer School in African Studies, which will focus on the relationship between knowledge and politics. The Summer School will take place online from 13 to 17 September 2021. The deadline for…

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Postdoc position: "Connecting Three Worlds: Socialism, Medicine and Global Health After World War II"

Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck University of London

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Quick guide to strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies

In a new quick guide, Claudia Baez Camargo explains the purpose, focus and value of strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies.

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Book: Descent into Night

Right at the beginning of the book, he wants to kill himself to finally put to rest the flashbacks from the murderous days of the crushing of the student protests in Lomé. But the memory of the friend from the prison camp who chose him as…

Job: Lecturer in Francophone Black Studies

University of Edinburg

Job: Lecturer in African Literary and Cultural Studies

Rutgers University, USA

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SNSF Grants: Doc.CH in the humanities and social sciences

The Doc.CH grants are awarded to promising researchers who wish to write a dissertation in the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland on a topic of their own choice.

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Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies

In the current edition of its bi-annual newsletter, the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) looks back at events, publications and new projects in the past six months and provides an outlook on up-coming activities.

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