Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel / Centre for African Studies Basel
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We coordinate Africa-related teaching and research at the University of Basel. Register for our newsletter on www.zasb.unibas.ch.
31/07/2024
This two-day conference in the framework of the SNSF Singergia project "Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies" brings together reflections on the use of concepts across borders in social sciences. In six panel sessions, Swiss and international scholars including “Reversing the Gaze” project members explore the epistemological and methodological implications of applying socio-scientific concepts across regional or historical contexts. The first conference day will conclude with a keynote by Shalini Randeria on “Postcolonial perspectives: quo vadis”; the second conference day with a roundtable discussion.
📅 The conference will take place on 12 and 13 September 2024 at the University of Basel.
❗ Registration is free of charge and open until 31 August 2024.
CONFERENCE: “Reversing the Gaze: Using Concepts Across Borders” Basel, 12-13 September 2024 Background The use of concepts deemed ‘Eurocentric’ in analyzing the global South is heavily criticized within the context of postcolonial and decolonial debates. Such c…
01/07/2024
The Programmzeitung featured the two decades of partnership between the bird's eye jazz club and the Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel / Centre for African Studies Basel, which has received much support from Pro Helvetia and the Südkulturfonds. We are looking forward to this week's concerts with Hilton Schilder and the Icnoclast featuring a beautiful line-up with a strong brass section and ad special guest vocalist Mana.
30/06/2024
Hilton Schilder and Friends: Pictures (McMenzie) Performance at the Musikwohnhaus Basel, 27 June 2024"Mana" Mariam del Carmen: vocalsRita Ekes: alto saxCedric Gschwind: tenor saxHilton Schilder: pianoThomas...
21/06/2024
An important insight into the realities of the ZA music scene.
Why musicians die in poverty – South African study reveals battle to make ends meet | Life Recent benefits support veteran SA guitarist Madala Kunene's medical costs. It's not new for musicians to face poverty, sparking media and political surprise.
12/06/2024
Our annual report bears witness to the many and varied collaborations and activities of the ZASB – Research Network Africa members, which have contributed to the development, strengthening and visibility of Africa-related research and teaching in Basel.
https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/news/news-details/zasb-research-network-africa-annual-report-2023/
11/06/2024
The call for papers and posters for the Swiss Researching Africa Days is now online. The deadline for submission is 31 July 2024.
8th Swiss Researching Africa Days The conference marks the 50th anniversary of the Swiss Society for African Studies
29/04/2024
Just learned about the passing of Gerald Mac Mac Mckenzie this morning in Johannesburg - I am deeply saddened by these news. Mac was part of one of the first concerts with jazz from South Africa that I curated back in October 2004 (Cape Jazz with Robbie Jansen in the lead, Hilton Schilder, Jack Momple and Steven Erasmus) which was followed by a string of projects. In 2006 he used the Goema Captains concept to present his vision of a Cape Town Symphony and subsequently started the Cape Town Composers' Workshop at his home in Athlone and started to compose for orchestra. In order to speed up the process he taught himself notation. We went to many great moments - it was not always easy to cope with his vision, energy and generosity. Thank you Mac for having taken us for this epic ride, which is partly documented in this playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXGVG2e1-nE&list=PL45A6FB22200A4AE3&pp=iAQB
❓ Why African Studies?
💡 Inevitably linked to the colonial conquest, missionaries spread the Christian faith in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Missionaries also set out from Switzerland to the British, German and French colonial empires, particularly from the 19th century onwards. There, they exerted considerable influence on colonial policies and social development – with implications not only for the churches they founded, but also, for instance, in education and healthcare. The values guiding the missionary enterprise were based on an idealized imagination of their society at home, which persists to the present day. It is important to critically reflect on the effect and the importance of these values for our world.
🌍 We study Africa not only to acquire knowledge about the continent, but also to understand our world. Our MA African Studies program helps students develop knowledge about Africa’s past, current and future role in framing the globalized world. It also encourages them to critically engage with global knowledge production and the representation of reality.
❗ Apply now for the MA African Studies at the University of Basel! The application deadline for the fall semester 2024 is 🗓30 April 2024.
🔗 www.zasb.unibas.ch/en/ma
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26/04/2024
Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion der Fachgruppe Geschichte am 6. Mai 24, 18:00 Uhr, mit Prof. Dr. Falestin Naïli (Nahoststudien, Universität Basel); Prof. Dr. Erik Petry (Zentrum für Jüdische Studien, Universität Basel), Dr. Henri-Michel Yéré (Soziologie/African Studies, Universität Basel) und PD Dr. Kijan Espahangizi (Historisches Seminar, Universität Zürich). Moderation: Christoph Keller
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22/04/2024
📢 Call for applications: 6th CODESRIA/ Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel / Centre for African Studies Basel in and in Africa
📚 Theme: "Making knowledge policy-relevant : The SSH’s role in global sustainable development."
🗓️ 26-30 August 2024
📍 Dakar, Senegal.
❗ Applications close on 31 May 2024 ❗
22/04/2024
Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
The next presentation will take place on Wednesday 24.04.2024
“Unsettling Scene: An Analysis of Photographs Taken in a German Prisoner Camp in Grootfontein (Namibia)” by Maria Randy Mwatondange (University of Basel)
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]
❓Why African Studies?
💡Colonial conquest and suppression has caused immense hardship for some and immeasurably benefitted others. The noble intentions of the ‘civilizing mission’ the colonizers’ put forward distracted from the exploitation of human and natural resources. Their actions contradict the values and ideals they transported. These were based on an idealized imagination of their society at home and notions of superiority, which persist to the present day. It is important to critically reflect on the effect and the importance of these values for our world.
🌍We study Africa not only to acquire knowledge about the continent, but also to understand our world. Our *MA African Studies* program helps students develop knowledge about Africa’s past, current and future role in framing the globalized world. It also encourages them to critically engage with global knowledge production and the representation of reality.
❗Apply now! The application deadline for the fall semester 2024 is 🗓30 April 2024.
🔗www.zasb.unibas.ch/en/ma
Universität Basel
❓Why African Studies?
💡Global success of Swiss chocolate is not only based on quality and marketing. Even though Switzerland never formally owned colonies, it has a centuries-old tradition of involvement in global trade. This includes, since the 19th century, the production and trade of cocoa from the Gold Coast, the British colony in West Africa that later became Ghana. This has had lasting implications for economy and society both in Ghana and Switzerland.
🌍We study Africa not only to acquire knowledge about the continent, but also to understand our world. Our *MA African Studies* program helps students develop knowledge about Africa’s past, current and future role in framing the globalized world. It also encourages them to critically engage with global knowledge production and the representation of reality.
❗Apply now! The application deadline for the fall semester 2024 is 🗓30 April 2024.
🔗www.zasb.unibas.ch/en/ma
Universität Basel
❓Why African Studies?
💡Colonial conquest and suppression has caused immense hardship for some and immeasurably benefitted others. The noble intentions of the ‘civilizing mission’ the colonizers’ put forward distracted from the exploitation of human and natural resources. But also actors in countries that never formally owned colonies were – and still are – among the beneficiaries of the colonial project, which laid the basis for the general economic structure of our world. To this day, charitable rhetoric concerning Africa conceals notions of superiority and tangible economic and geopolitical interests.
We study Africa not only to acquire knowledge about the continent, but also to understand our world. Our MA African Studies program helps students develop knowledge about Africa’s past, current and future role in framing the globalized world. It also encourages them to critically engage with global knowledge production and the representation of reality.
❗Apply now! The application deadline for the fall semester 2024 is 🗓30 April 2024.
🔗www.zasb.unibas.ch/en/ma
Universität Basel
08/04/2024
The Fachgruppe Geschichte invites you to a public discussion on portcolonial theory on 6 May 2024.
27/03/2024
The Africa Centre for Transregional Research, the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Universität Freiburg), the Basel Institute on Governance and the Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel / Centre for African Studies Basel are organising a workshop to deepen the exchange on issues of with a focus on .
🗓22 & 29 April 2024
📍 Basel & Freiburg
Citizenship is not a stable condition, but subject to change. It is not a given, but has to be fought for. It can gradually dwindle in phases of public disengagement, motivated by disenchantment with a government or as a result of active exclusion. The workshop will address the temporal dimensions of fluctuating citizenship, affected by crisis, violent conflict and re-foundations of polities, which offer opportunities for mobilization (or resistance), but also potentially new constraints on civil rights.
❗ Registration is open until 12 April 2024. ❗
Workshop: "Citizenship in times of change. East-African perspectives" Part I of a workshop in the framework of the ZASB key area "Politics and Governance" in conjunction with the University of Freiburg
23/03/2024
Congratulations to Randy Mwatondange MA, Julia Rensing Phd, and Mamadou Oury Balde MA, who received their diploma today!
19/02/2024
I am thrilled to see the edition of The Reports of Theophilus Opoku completed and in print. It was a pleasure assisting Michelle Gilbert and Paul Jenkins in getting their mighty project published - thirty years after my first encounter with Opoku in an interdisciplinary seminar with Michelle and Paul. Special thanks go to Sarah Thiele and Ernest Sasu Kwame Sewordor for their assistance, to the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel, the Carl Schlettwein Stiftung, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Missionswissenschaft, and the Faculty of Theology at the University of Basel and the archives of Mission 21 for their support, and to the team of the Fontes Historiae Africanae series for their patience! I look forward to the launch of the book at the Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel / Centre for African Studies Basel in early July 2024.
13/02/2024
CEWARN’s Strategy Framework and Civil Society Partnership: Lessons for early-warning and response systems – ACCORD This article reviews the implementation of CEWARN’s partnerships with CSOs for data collection, analysis and response under the current Strategy Framework.
16/01/2024
Feya Faku Quintet - Jazz aus Südafrika - zwei Abende mit hochkarätigen Musikern aus Südafrika und der Schweiz im Musikwohnhaus_II in Basel.
20/12/2023
The conference “Reversing the Gaze: Using Concepts Across Borders” (Basel, 12/13 Septmber 2024) brings together reflections on the use of concepts across regional or historical contexts in the social sciences. Its first aim is to share and discuss the results of the SNSF Sinergia project "Reversing the Gaze", and to examine other cases of applying socio-scientific concepts across borders. Its second aim is to explore the epistemological and methodological implications of turning the gaze traditionally directed at the Rest towards the West.
The conference is co-organized by the Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel / Centre for African Studies Basel, Europainstitut der Universität Basel, Geography Institute of the University of Zürich and Edinburgh school of Law in the framework of the research project “Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies”.
Deadline for paper submissions: 15.03.2024
Call for papers: “Reversing the Gaze: Using Concepts Across Borders” The conference brings together reflections on the use of concepts across borders in social sciences. Its first aim is to share and discuss the results a the SNSF Sinergia project "Reversing the Gaze", and to examine other cases of applying socio-scientific concepts across regional or historical cont...
20/12/2023
Im Podcast "Laut + Leis" des kath.ch diskutieren Elisio Macamo, Professor für Afrikastudien an der Universität Basel, und Nicole Bolliger, Programmverantwortliche Afrika bei Brücke Le Pont und Alumni des MA African Studies, die Frage, wie sinnvoll Entwicklungshilfe ist.
In den Medien: "Wie sinnvoll ist Entwicklungshilfe?" Im Podcast "Laut + Leis" des Katholischen Medienzentrums diskutieren Elísio Macamo, Professor für Afrikastudien an der Universität Basel, und Nicole Bolliger, Programmverantwortliche Afrika bei Brücke Le Pont und Alumni des MA African Studies, die Frage, wie sinnvoll Entwicklungshilfe ist.
19/12/2023
Call: Roundtables and 'Exciting Lecture' on African History The 6th Biennial CRG African History Conference, hosted and organised by the Centre for African Studies Basel (ZASB) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) will take place on 13-15 June, 2024. The conference format centers on thematic roundtables with short input by three to five speakers. In th...
29/11/2023
Till Förster, Professor Emeritus, former Chair of Anthropology at the University of Basel, will present his book project on politics in the West African savannah.
🗓️ Monday, 11 December 2023,
⌚ 16.15-17.45 CET
📍 Online via Zoom💻
The presentation is followed by a discussion with the audience.
Till Förster: "Nafoun – there is no fire" In the framework of the ZASB key area "Politics and Governance"
22/11/2023
Wie finden und gestalten Menschen mit afrikanischem Hintergrund, die in der Schweiz aufgewachsen sind, ihren Zugang zum Kontinent? Diese Frage war der Ausgangspunkt für das aktuelle Afrika-Bulletin. Der Aufruf mündete in einem reichen Strauss von sehr persönlichen Beiträgen. Mehr Raum als die Auseinandersetzung mit Afrika nehmen in den Texten allerdings die Erfahrungen von Menschen afrikanischer Abstammung hier in der Schweiz ein – die alltägliche Auseinandersetzung mit Fremdzuschreibungen.
Seit 2010 wird das Afrika-Bulletin von ZASB und Afrika-Komitee gemeinsam herausgegeben und bietet Studierenden und Doktorierenden am ZASB (sowie all jenen, die sich für Afrika interessieren) eine Plattform, um Texte für ein breiteres Publikum zu verfassen oder Redaktionserfahrung zu gewinnen.
Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 192: "Auf zwei Kontinenten zuhause" Wie finden und gestalten Menschen mit afrikanischem Hintergrund, die in der Schweiz aufgewachsen sind, ihren Zugang zum Kontinent? Diese Frage war der Ausgangspunkt für das vorliegende Heft. Der Aufruf mündete in einem reichen Strauss von sehr persönlichen Beiträgen – weshalb das Heft um einen...
08/11/2023
In her article in the journal Sexes, Frida Lyonga explores the challenges of conducting empirical research on homosexuality in Africa via an autoethnographic account of her experiences as a researcher investigating attitudes towards homosexuality among Cameroonians at home and in Switzerland.
Publication: "Researching Homosexuality in Difficult Contexts" In her article in the journal Sexes, Frida Lyonga explores the challenges of conducting empirical research on homosexuality in Africa via an autoethnographic account of her experiences as a researcher investigating attitudes towards homosexuality among Cameroonians at home and in Switzerland.
19/09/2023
Job: Hilfsassistent*in in der ZASB-Geschäftsstelle
Die Stelle mit 6 Wochenstunden Pensum wird ab 1. Oktober 2023 oder nach Vereinbarung für ein Jahr besetzt. Es besteht die Möglichkeit einer Verlängerung. Eine Immatrikulation als Student*in im Master- oder Bachelorstudium an der Universität Basel ist zwingend vorausgesetzt.
Bewerbungsfrist: 20. September 2023
Weitere Informationen auf unserer Website:
Job: Hilfsassistent*in in der ZASB-Geschäftsstelle Ab dem 1. Oktober 2023 oder nach Vereinbarung besetzt das Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel eine Stelle als Hilfsassistent*in (6 Stunden/Woche).
01/06/2023
📣 Call for applications: Basel in 2023
Theme: "Making knowledge policy-relevant: The SSH’s role in global sustainable development"
The Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB calls for applications for the Basel Summer School in African Studies 2023, which will take place in 📍 Basel, Switzerland, from 📅 23 August to 1 September 2023.
❗ The deadline for applications is 2 July 2023 ❗
The focus is on the challenge of policy relevance in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in general and area studies in particular, by mapping out the differences between basic and applied research. The Summer School aims to harness the strengths of basic research in fields bearing directly on development to emphasize the need for an actual understanding of the problems to be addressed.
for Africa-based participants available: Up to nine participants from institutions in Africa (African countries, except Maghreb region and Egypt) may receive a grant covering the costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence.
Basel Summer School in African Studies 2023 | Centre for African Studies Graduate students are typically highly motivated to carry out research relevant to current policy issues and benefits society. However, standard practices and traditions of scientific knowledge production do not guarantee that these objectives can be achieved in the context of graduate research proj...
24/05/2023
Pianist Nduduzo Makhathini (South Africa) who plays at the bird's eye jazz club tonight at 20:30 will do a masterclass today from 14:00-15:30 at the jazz campus. This is a public event coorganized on a short notice with the Centre for African Studies - students and anybody interested is cordially invited to join. The masterclass takes place at the club of the Jazzcampus, Utengasse 15, Basel. Makhathni recently earned a PhD from the Africa Open Institute at Stellenbosch University with a thesis entitled “Breaking into Sound: Dis/Locating Ntu Cosmology and Improvisation in South African Jazz”. See you there!
Very happy that Blue Note Africa artist Nduduzo Makhatini will visit us for a masterclass tomorrow Wednesday! Come by!
May 24, 14:00-15:30, Jazzcampus Club
Also, live in Bird'd Eye Jazz Club with his trio, tonight and tomorrow night!
In cooperation with Zentrum für Afrikastudien der Universität Basel.
25/03/2023
A grand graduation day for the Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel / Centre for African Studies Basel this morning celebrating Toon Dirkx (PhD Political Science), Lina Noll, Marilyn Umurungi (both MA African Studies), Marta Rudnicka (PhD Social Anthropology), Wanda Rutishauser (MA African Studies) and Ernest Sewordor (PhD Urban Studies). Not in the picture: are Andela Delic (MA African Studies, Leah Vogler (MA Art History), Mamane Amadou (PhD Social Anthropology, Sharmarke Dugsiye and Helene Widmer (both PhD Sociology). Congratulations to all of them.
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ZASB - Studying Africa, studying the world
The Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB coordinates Africa-related teaching and research at the University of Basel and its partner institutions. It is an acknowledged centre for interdisciplinary Africa-focused research and offers a Master's and a PhD in African Studies as well as a continuing education programme for professionals.
The CASB coordinates and promotes Africa-related teaching and research at the University of Basel and its partner institutions. Among our associate members are the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), the Museum of Cultures, Mission 21 and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). We cooperate closely with the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS) in the fields of training, academic exchange and publications. The Centre is a member of the Africa-Europe Group of Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) and has a partnership agreement with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
Besides its academic activities, the Centre promotes the exchange between academia and the wider public. Subscribe to our weekly Newsletter to be informed about Africa related events in and around Basel.
Das Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel (ZASB) koordiniert die Lehre und Forschung zu Afrika an der Universität Basel und ihren Partnerinstitutionen. Das ZASB ist ein international anerkanntes Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung und bietet einen Master und ein Doktorat in Afrikastudien sowie ein Weiterbildungsprogramm an.
Das ZASB koordiniert und fördert auf Afrika fokussierte Bildung und Forschung an der Universität Basel und profitiert von einer einzigartigen Konzentration von Institutionen und Organisationen mit Bezug zu Afrika. Zu unseren assoziierten Mitgliedern gehören das Schweizerische Tropen- und Public Health Institut (Schweizer TPH), das Kulturmuseum, die Mission 21 und die Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). In den Bereichen Ausbildung, akademischer Austausch und Publikationen arbeiten wir eng mit der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien (SSAS) zusammen. Zudem ist das ZASB Mitglied der Afrika-Europa-Gruppe der Interdisziplinären Studien (AEGIS) und hat eine Partnerschaftsvereinbarung mit dem Rat für die Entwicklung der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung in Afrika (CODESRIA).
Neben seinen akademischen Aktivitäten fördert das Zentrum den Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Abonnieren Sie unseren Newsletter, um über Veranstaltungen mit Bezug zu Afrika in und um Basel informiert zu werden.
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