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BAB Interviews and Conversations

Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) - Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library

BAB is a centre of documentation and expertise on Namibia and southern Africa, located in Basel, Switzerland. Our podcast features extracts from past and recent interviews with scholars and BAB guests as well as selected recordings from the extensive southern African historical audio archive curated at the BAB. The series maintains a loose format. Listeners may also want to consult the BAB online catalogues of the archive, library and publishing house for additional information about a scholar or

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African Collections and Decoloniality -...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2020/11/13

Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, doctoral student at the University of Cape Town, performed the “Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime” (Dance of the Rubber Tree) at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and inside its archives shortly before this conversation took place with the BAB archivist. He reflects about the challenges of “decolonizing the archive” and his roles as a performance artist in “cleansing a space which is speaking to ghosts.”.

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14:52

Namibian historiography - Vilho Shigwedha

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2020/10/16

Vilho Shigwedha is a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography, History and Environmental Studies at the Unversity of Namibia in Windhoek. He, Martha Akawa and a group of students visited the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in August 2015. In this interview he talks about becoming a historian and researching the controversial history of the Cassinga massacre in southern Angola in 1978 during the Namibian liberation struggle

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South African history research - Patrick Harries

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2020/09/11

In this extract of a conversation with the BAB archivist about his audio research archive, Patrick Harries, who passed away in 2016, reflects about his early career as a historian, researcher and lecturer at the University of Cape Town in the 1970s and 1980s

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Bittercomix - Anton Kannemeyer

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2020/05/12

In this extract from a Lunch Talk with a Basler Afrika Bibliographien librarian and a wider audience, the South African comix artist Anton Kannemeyer reflects about the early history of comix and cartoons in South Africa, his own career and the history of the controversial Bittercomix No 1, published in 1992

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18:36

Mozambican film - João Ribeiro

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2020/05/11

João Ribeiro is manager, documentalist and producer for film and TV production at Kanema Produçoes Maputo and independent film director in Mozambique. He visited the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in September 2015 at the occasion of showing his film „O Ultimo Voo do Flamingo“ in the BAB film series „mozambique in motion“. In this interview with the BAB Managing Director he talks about the challenges of movie making in his country and state funding for cultural activities in Mozambique.

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Namibian historiography - Martha Akawa

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2020/05/10

Martha Akawa is the Head of the Department of Geography, History and Environmental Studies at the Unversity of Namibia in Windhoek. She and a group of students visited the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in August 2015. In this interview with a BAB archivist she talks about becoming a historian, her research interests and history debates in Namibia.

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BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2020/05/09

Introducing Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). The podcast series "Interviews and Conversations" features past and recent interviews with scholars and BAB guests as well as selected recordings from the BAB audio archive.

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