Basler Afrika Bibliographien

14/04/2025

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium

The next presentation will take place on Wednesday 16.04.2025

Film Screening: “Anatomy of a Bribe” (2019) by Al Jazeera Investigative Unit

Venue: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel
Time: Wednesday CH: 18:15 / NAM: 18:15 👈

Contact for registration and zoom link: [email protected] and [email protected]

11/04/2025

Join the lecture “Tji Mbatire Ponamba, Omatupa Uuandje Je Jarure”
(When I Die Here, Let My Bones Be Returned Home) by Dag Henrichsen & Lorena Rizzo (Basel) next Monday

Archives of Colonial Violence and the Politics of Bones in Namibia
Lecture presented by Dag Henrichsen (BAB) and Lorena Rizzo (Centre for African Studies) within the context of the Ringvorlesung “Bodies that matter: menschliche Überreste und deren Nachleben”, offered by the University of Basel.

Venue: Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz, Room 102.
Time: 14 April 18:15-19:15

07/04/2025

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium

The next presentation will take place on Wednesday 09.04.2025

“Research Film Provenance: Annotating the Film Connection of the Former Swiss Tropical Institute” by Mario Schulze (University of Lucerne)

Venue: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel
Time: Wednesday CH: 18:15 / NAM: 18:15 👈

Contact for registration and zoom link: [email protected] and [email protected]

06/04/2025

Join the Hybrid event (online and in person) "Apartheid in Namibia 1960–1990: Zeitzeugen sagen aus. Ein Gespräch aus der Forschungswerkstatt" next Wednesday

Venue: Campus Karlsruhe der FernUniversität in Hagen, Kriegsstr. 100 (2. OG),
76133 Karlsruhe/online on zoom
Time: 09.04.2025 18:00 - 20:00

Gespräche am Tor - öffentliche Veranstaltungsreihe in Karlsruhe (online/Präsenz)

04/04/2025

Check out the new Volume from the Namibian Journal of Social Justice
"Climate Justice and Resource Extractivism"
👇

Climate change refers to long-term variations in global temperature, wind patterns, precipitation, and atmospheric pressure. The climate change currently affecting the Earth is evident in global warming, which is characterized by an increase in the average temperature at the Earth's surface, fluctua...

02/04/2025

Join the Performance "Saara Omulaule/Black Saara" (2023) by Tuli Mekondjo this Friday online or on site

Venue: Global Heritage Lab, Poststraße 26, 53111 Bonn
Time: Friday, 04.04.25 - 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM

Tuli Mekondjo’s performance "Saara Omulaule/Black Saara" (2023) was improvised & inspired by Kari Miettinen’s book "On the Way to Whiteness – Christianization, Conflict, and Change in Colonial Owamboland, 1910-1965". The Finnish Sunday school song about “Black Saara – the little Negro girl...

31/03/2025

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium

The next presentation will take place on Wednesday 02.04.2025

“Regimes of Legal & Spatial Reproduction in Contemporary Windhoek” by Ellison Tjirera
(University of Namibia)

Venue: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel
Time: Wednesday CH: 18:15 / NAM: 18:15 👈

Contact for registration and zoom link: [email protected] and [email protected]

30/03/2025

African History Research Seminar Spring Semester 2025
The Research Seminar joins the Lecture Series of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB)

See the presentation next Wednesday, 2 April 2025

"The Human Infrastructure of the Namibian War: Origins of the «Namibian Labor
Corridors» in War and Genocide, 1904–1908" by William Lyon (Universität Zürich)

Venue: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel
Time: Wednesday CH: 12:15 –14:00

26/03/2025

Our latest podcast episode is out now!

Our new podcast episode features the writer Rémy Ngamije from Windhoek who is also the editor of Doek Literary Magazine, the online literary magazine from Namibia.
In this extract from a public presentation in Basel in July 2024, Ngamije reflects on his path as a writer and imagining new literary futures in and out of Windhoek.

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https://bab.podigee.io/26-doek-reflections-by-remy-ngamije-on-becoming-a-writer-and-founding-a-literary-magazine-in-namibia

20/03/2025

Special Event: Film Screening this Saturday

“We Are Zama Zama” (2021) by Rosalind Morris

Venue: Neues Kino Basel, Klybeckstrasse 247
Time: 22 March 2025, 18:00 - 23:00

The documentary by anthropologist Rosalind Morris (Columbia University, New York) on migrants eking out lives in South Africas abandoned gold mines is screened within the frame of «(In)Audible Past Symposium». It is held from 20 to 22 March at the Seminar für Medienwissenschaften (SFM, University of Basel), in collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation (Berne), the Centre for African Studies (University of Basel) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.

“Rosalind Morris weaves a transfixing narrative about the lives of migrants whose flight from neighboring Zimbabwe has led them to seek gold in the ruins. In harrowing POV footage shot by the miners, we follow three men into the underground where they spend days, seeking gold and friendship while ...

19/03/2025

Join us this Friday for a Performative Lecture "Nzam—Time and Spirit (Passages)" by Jasmine Tutum (Freiburg i.B.)

Time: 21 March 2025, 18:15 – 20:00
Venue: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Interdisciplinary artist Jasmine Tutum presents a performative lecture in regard to her research «Unmuting the archive». As a Jamaican Gabonese artist based in Freiburg, her autoethnographic approach explores (her)stories of colonial entanglement and intersecting diasporas across Gabon, Jamaica and Germany. Working with video installation, movement, voice and sound performance, her nonlinear narratives of resistance attempt to re-activate and create (future) memories.

The Performative Lecture takes place within the frame of the «(In)Audible Past Symposium» held from 20 to 22 March at the Seminar für Medienwissenschaften (SFM, University of Basel), in collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation (Berne), the Centre for African Studies (University of Basel) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.

18/03/2025

This Thursday evening
Concert and Performance by

Kesivan Naidoo and Band &
Lord Stef’, Tesh and Ra Pius &
Amifusion

Venue: VersoBar, Petersgraben 50, 4051 Basel
Time: 20 March 2025, 20:00 - 23:00

The Performance and Concert takes place within the frame of the «(In)Audible Past Symposium» held from 20 to 22 March at the Seminar für Medienwissenschaften (SFM, University of Basel), in collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation (Berne), the Centre for African Studies (University of Basel) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien

17/03/2025

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium, collaboration with Middle Eastern Studies

The next presentation will take place on Wednesday 19.03.2025

“Colonialism & Apartheid in South Africa and Israel/Palestine: Between Social Theory & Political Practice” by Ran Greenstein (Wits University, SA)

Venue: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel
Time: Wednesday CH: 18:15 / NAM: 19:15

Contact for registration and zoom link: [email protected] and [email protected]

12/03/2025

Check out the Programme for the Symposium

THE (IN)AUDIBLE PAST

From the 20th – 22nd of March 2025

10/03/2025

New Library Entry:

Rare booklet from Guyana
The 28-page booklet was produced 1980 as part of the preparations for an International Forum on Southern Africa hosted by the Government of Guyana in association with the Guyana Committee for Solidarity and Peace. It highlights the parallels between Guyana and the countries of southern Africa in their historical struggle for freedom against colonial powers. The booklet contains the speech by Prime Minister of Guyana L.F.S. Burnham, on the occasion of the 1973 Namibia Day, broadcasted in Radio Zambia and Radio Tanzania, and a statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana R.E. Jackson, made at the United Nations Council for Namibia in 1980. The texts are accompanied by several photographs of SWAPO.

08/03/2025

The first bab publication from 2025 is out now:

Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo's "Defending the Investment. Rössing Uranium and the Business of Decolonisation in Namibia"
now available from our webshop👇

https://www.baslerafrika.ch/product/rossing/

07/03/2025

Check out the webinar next Tuesday with Namibian Artists 👇

The Rhodes Trust and Guns & Rain invite you to join our webinar roundtable discussion on the exhibition Entangled: Southern African Artists Reflect on Colonialism, Monuments, & Memory currently on display at Rhodes House.

Bringing together the artists exhibiting their work, this webinar will delve into the memory-making processes of the artists, reflecting on the creation of the works and the Entangled exhibition. The panellists will speak to creative processes that work with or against colonial archives, often to reveal their ethics or the resiliency of those who grapple with deeply personal and sometimes violent histories.

Tuesday 11th March, 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, Zoom

Opening remarks: Julie Taylor, curator of Entangled
Facilitator: Professor Paul Basu, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Panellists: Zenaéca Singh, Tuli Mekondjo and Nicola Brandt, artists from Entangled
Closing remarks: Melanie Reixach-Wong

Sign up for free now: https://bit.ly/EntangledExhibitionWebinar

07/03/2025

Next week, the BAB will be closed during the Basler Fasnacht (11-12 March). We’re back on Thursday, 13th of March!