08 Jan 2021 / Research

Out now: 5th JJ Bachofen Lecture delivered by Prof. Amanda Hammar, Copenhagen

In her lecture, Prof Amanda Hammar, Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, reflected on biography, property and personhood in Urban Zimbabwe

21 Dec 2020 / Research, People

Out now: Basel Papers on Political Transformations (22)

Title: Existential Transformations. Life in the West African savannah since the 1970s: An outlook

03 Dec 2020 / News, Research, People

Silke Oldenburg has a new Project in Colombia

Silke Oldenburg has been awarded a seed money grant by the Leading House for the Latin American Region of the Universität St. Gallen (CLS-HSG). In collaboration with Jaime Hernandez-Garcia (Universidad Javeriana), she will be the principal…

11 Nov 2020 / News, Research, People

New Article and Radio Interview by Lesley Nicole Braun

How Memes in the DRC Allow People to Laugh at Those in Power – and Themselves

11 Oct 2020 / News, Research, People

Rita Kesselring auf Nau.ch zur Konzernverantwortungsinitiative

Wieso lehnt eine Grünliberale die Konzern-Initiative ab? Die Konzern-Initiative wird von allen Seiten heiss diskutiert. Für ein Nein kämpft Afrika-Kennerin Isabelle Chevalley. Damit stösst die GLP-Frau auf Kritik. Eine Ethnologin mit…

09 Oct 2020 / News, Studies

New Website: African Worlds in China

Students of the field course 2019/20 created a website with impressions of their field trip.

30 Sep 2020 / News, Research, People

Rita Kesselring in Le Temps on debt relief and covid-19

«La situation économique zambienne était critique bien avant le Covid-19, affirme Rita Kesselring, chercheuse à l’Université de Bâle et co-auteur d’une étude intitulée «Swiss extractivism: Switzerland’s role in Zambia’s copper sector»,…

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