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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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4:37

«My very first question to you”. In memory of Ruth...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2025/09/19

A long-lasting collaboration and friendship has ended: BAB is mourning the passing of anti-apartheidjournalist and writer Ruth Weiss at the age of 101. We are humbled by her unwavering trust over nearly 30 years in our work of curating her remarkable audio and paper archives. Her acoustic archives alone comprise some 180 tapes with interview, press conference and music recordings spanning several decades and including the voices and narratives of many southern African women and men. On occasion of

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15:59

Doek! Reflections by Rémy Ngamije on becoming a...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2025/02/25

Doek! is an online literary magazine published in Windhoek since 2019. It has brought to the front new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art —to much acclaim. Experimental and daring in various ways, its beautifully curated editions have enriched Africa’s literary and visual landscape quite unexpectedly. Early on, Rémy Ngamije, one of the co-founders, invited the Basler Afrika Bibliographien to contribute glimpses from its archival holdings and within the curatorial frame of providing “a

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21:55

Kritische Rückblicke: Barbara Müller über Solidarität...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2024/09/20

Barbara Müller fungierte von 1973 bis 1988 als Präsidentin des Komitees «kämpfendes afrika» (ka), das 1971 als politische Solidaritätsorganisation Medic’ Angola begann. Zunächst eng mit dem maoistisch geprägten «proletarischen Internationalismus» der Kommunistischen Part der Schweiz verbunden, konnte das sich seit 1976 «kämpfendes afrika» nennende Komitee besonders enge Kontakte zu einigen Befreiungsbewegungen im südlichen Afrika aufbauen. Barbara Müller reflektiert im Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar

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29:50

Liberation Politics and Archives. A Conversation with...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2024/07/26

In view of South African journalist Ruth Weiss’s 90th birthday in 2014, BAB’ s archivists invited her in 2013 to a public conversation in the series “Archivgespräche” – “Archive talk”. In this podcast episode, conducted in both German and English, we provide an extract from the live-recorded conversation held in Basel. It includes introductions to Ruth Weiss’s collections by the archivists Dag Henrichsen and Susanne Hubler Baier, followed by historical interview snippets from her impressive tape

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21:55

Kritische Rückblicke: Solidaritäts- und...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2024/06/14

1973 als Teil einer Solidaritätsbewegung gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Ausbeutung in der Schweiz entstanden, konzentrierte sich das Afrika-Komitee in Basel auf eine kritische Solidaritäts- und Informationsarbeit mit und zur Zivilgesellschaft in Afrika. Nach 50 Jahren löst sich das Komitee 2024 auf. Mitbegründer:innen Gertrud Baud und Hans-Ueli Stauffer reflektierten bereits 2018 in einem Gespräch mit BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen über damalige Themensetzungen in der Schweizer Zivilgesellschaft

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12:28

Tuli Mekondjo‘s art performance „Ousie Martha“

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2023/10/12

The Namibian artist Tuli Mekondjo reflects in this conversation about her work in the colonial image archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and how this led her to initiate new artistic practices and conceptualise and design a new art performance. «Ousie Martha» references generations of African laundry women in Namibia as wage labourers in white settler homes, often depicted in settler family photography. Inventing an outdoor print technique with copies of one particular photograph of a

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24:17

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegungen in der...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2023/03/09

Barbara Müller fungierte von 1973 bis 1988 als Präsidentin des Komitees «kämpfendes afrika» (ka), das 1971 in Zürich als politische Solidaritätsorganisation Medic’ Angola begann. Zunächst eng mit dem maoistisch geprägten «proletarischen Internationalismus» der Kommunistischen Partei der Schweiz verbunden, konnte das sich seit 1976 ka nennende Komitee besonders enge Kontakte zu einigen antikolonialen Befreiungsbewegungen im südlichen Afrika aufbauen. Innerhalb der Schweizer Solidaritätslandschaft

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20:25

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegungen in der...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2022/12/21

Susy Greuter erinnert sich im Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen an ihr vielfältiges Engagement zum afrikanischen Kontinent, zunächst als Studentin der Soziologie und Ethnologie an der Universität Zürich und im Komitee Südliches Afrika (1975). Das Komitee Südliches Afrika verstand sich als Abspaltung des maoistisch ausgerichteten «kämpfenden afrika» und war nur eines von vielen Komitees in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz. Susy Greuter bettet ihr studentisches Engagement in eine Vielzahl von

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16:36

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2022/07/14

Beatrice Felber Rochat erinnert sich im Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen an ihr frühes Engagement in der von christlichen Frauen gegründeten transnationalen Solidaritätsgruppe «Südafrika-Boykott». Die Boykott-Gruppe organisierte gegen Ende der 1970er Jahre öffentliche Anti-Apartheid Aktionen in Basel, trat für den Boykott von Konsumprodukten und von multinationalen Firmen und Banken, die mit dem Apartheidregime Beziehungen unterhielten, ein und solidarisierte sich mit der afrikanischen

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16:28

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2022/05/10

1973 als Teil einer Solidaritätsbewegung gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Ausbeutung in der Schweiz entstanden, konzentriert sich das Afrika-Komitee in Basel bis heute auf eine kritische Solidaritäts- und Informationsarbeit mit und zur Zivilgesellschaft in Afrika. In diesem Auszug aus einem Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen vom April 2016 reflektiert die Mitbegründerin des Komitee’s, Gertud Baud, über die Aufbauarbeit und Schweizer Solidaritätsnetze in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren sowie

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34:20

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2022/03/22

1973 als Teil einer Solidaritätsbewegung gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Ausbeutung in der Schweiz entstanden, konzentriert sich das Afrika-Komitee in Basel bis heute auf eine kritische Solidaritäts- und Informationsarbeit mit und zur Zivilgesellschaft in Afrika. In diesem Auszug aus einem Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen vom November 2015 reflektiert der Mitbegründer des Komitees, Hans-Ulrich Stauffer, über die Aufbauarbeit und Schweizer Solidaritätsnetze in den 1970er Jahren sowie

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23:12

The Day Mandela is arrested – Lewis Nkosi

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2022/02/18

Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and professor of literature in various African and European countries as well as in the USA. Living in exile since 1960, he resided in Basel between 1997 and 2010. On 11th November 1999 he gave a reading from his yet unpublished novel “Mandela’s Ego” (2006) at the BAB. In the extracts of the audio recording presented here, he explains his motivation to write about ‘the day Mandela is arrested’,

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10:23

Snippets from the Audio Archive VI – Carol and Ron...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2021/11/19

Carol and Ron Gestwicki, a couple from northern America, worked for the Anglican Church in Namibia from 1964 to 1966. Ron worked as a priest in Windhoek’s African township, the Old Location, and as such worked closely with oppositional leaders such as Hosea Kutako and Clemens Kapuuo. Carol, a trained nurse, gave courses in the Red Cross clinic of the Old Location and also evening and Sunday classes for the Anglican church congregations. For a while they lived in a caravan on the outskirts of Gobabis

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12:51

Snippets from the Audio Archive V – Freedom Nyamubaya...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2021/10/15

Freedom Tichaona Nyamubaya (1958 – 2015) was a Zimbabwean freedom fighter, activist and poet. In 1975, she left what was then Rhodesia to join the Zimbabwe National Liberation Army (ZANLA) in Mozambique. She achieved the rank of Female Field Operation Commander and was elected the Secretary for Education in the first ZANU Women's League conference in 1979. After independence she worked as a rural development, gender and peace activist as well as a farmer, dancer and poet.Ruth Weiss (*1924), who

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11:21

Zur Geschichte der BAB, mit Albert M. Debrunner

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2021/09/02

Die BAB blicken 2021 auf 50 Jahre Institutsgeschichte zurück. 1971 von Carl Schlettwein als Bibliothek und Verlag gegründet, um Publikationen insbesondere zu Namibia unabhängig von kolonialen Rahmenbedingungen zugänglich zu machen, gewährleistet die Carl Schlettwein Stiftung seit 1994 das Bestehen der BAB als Namibia Resource Centre und Southern Africa Library, inklusive eines Archivs. In dem Gespräch von Dag Henrichsen und Daniela Schlettwein-Gsell mit Albert M. Debrunner im Juni 2018 erzählt

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14:54

Snippets from the Audio Archive IV – Sister Janice...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2021/08/06

In this extract from an interview Ruth Weiss conducted with Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin (1942–2021) in Harare (Zimbabwe) on 30th July 1982, Sister Janice reflects on her decision to move to Rhodesia where she worked for the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in 1977. Documenting atrocities of the Zimbabwean war of liberation she was arrested and deported, only to continue to work from Mozambique. After Rhodesia gained its independence in 1980, Sister Janice returned to Zimbabwe to work

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9:24

Snippets from the Audio Archive III - Kenneth Kaunda...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2021/07/02

Kenneth Kaunda (1924–2021) was the first State President of independent Zambia. On March 30, 1977 Ruth Weiss conducted an interview with Kaunda in Lusaka on the occasion of the visit of Nikolai Podgorny, then President of the Soviet Union. In this extract from the interview, Kaunda provides an assessment of the Cold War situation in southern Africa, Zambia’s position as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and the supportive role of the Soviet Union for Zambia.

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24:14

Snippets from the Audio Archive II - Mike Muendane...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2021/06/04

In the 1970s and 1980s, the political solidarity committee “kämpfendes afrika” (fighting africa) in Zurich engaged in the support for African liberation movements. Its archives of papers, images and sound recordings are today housed at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. The extracts of a recording presented here document an event of the “ka” on 1st March 1980 in the Zurich Volkshaus. Mike Muendane and Vuyisile Dlova speak as representatives of the South African liberation movement Pan Africanist

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13:04

Returning Home - Lewis Nkosi

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2021/05/04

Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and professor of literature in various African and European countries as well as in the USA. Living in exile since 1960, he resided in Basel between 1997 and 2010. On 11th November 1999 he gave a reading from his novels at the BAB. In this extract of the ensuing conversation, he talks about his identity as a writer and the experience of arriving in exile in London in 1960 and returning to South

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19:27

Snippets from the Audio Archive I - Libertina...

BAB Interviews and Conversations ·

2021/03/16

In this extract from an interview conducted by Ruth Weiss on September 28th, 1979, the then “first and only” Namibian medical doctor, Libertina Inaviposa Amathila (née Appolus), also known as Libertine Amathila, talks about studying in exile and becoming a doctor as well as women’s education, gender issues and life in the Namibian refugee camps in Angola and Zambia. Amathila, who had fled South African ruled Namibia in the early 1960s, became a high-ranking SWAPO official. Ruth Weiss interviewed her

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