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Kritische Rückblicke: Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidsengagement des Afrika-Komitees, Basel
BAB Interviews and Conversations - June 14, 2024 10:00 - 21 minutes1973 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 20...
Tuli Mekondjo‘s art performance „Ousie Martha“
BAB Interviews and Conversations - October 12, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutesThe 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 Af...
Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegungen in der Schweiz – „kämpfendes afrika“ (Zürich)
BAB Interviews and Conversations - March 09, 2023 14:16 - 24 minutesBarbara 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 v...
Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegungen in der Schweiz – Komitee Südliches Afrika (Zürich)
BAB Interviews and Conversations - December 21, 2022 08:27 - 20 minutesSusy 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 ...
Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der Schweiz – Südafrika-Boykott
BAB Interviews and Conversations - July 14, 2022 14:26 - 16 minutesBeatrice 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 A...
Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der Schweiz – Das Afrika-Komitee Basel
BAB Interviews and Conversations - March 22, 2022 11:20 - 34 minutes1973 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 Ges...
Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der Schweiz – Das Afrika-Komitee Basel
BAB Interviews and Conversations - March 22, 2022 11:20 - 34 minutes1973 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 Ges...
Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegungen in der Schweiz – Das Afrika-Komitee Basel
BAB Interviews and Conversations - March 22, 2022 11:20 - 34 minutes1973 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 Ges...
The Day Mandela is arrested – Lewis Nkosi
BAB Interviews and Conversations - February 18, 2022 10:00 - 23 minutesLewis 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 gav...
Snippets from the Audio Archive VI – Carol and Ron Gestwicki
BAB Interviews and Conversations - November 19, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutesCarol 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 tra...
Snippets from the Audio Archive V – Freedom Nyamubaya and Ruth Weiss
BAB Interviews and Conversations - October 15, 2021 10:20 - 12 minutesFreedom 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 E...
Zur Geschichte der BAB, mit Albert M. Debrunner
BAB Interviews and Conversations - September 02, 2021 11:40 - 11 minutesDie 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 Bestehe...
Snippets from the Audio Archive IV – Sister Janice McLaughlin and Ruth Weiss
BAB Interviews and Conversations - August 06, 2021 07:15 - 14 minutesIn 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 atr...
Snippets from the Audio Archive III - Kenneth Kaunda and Ruth Weiss
BAB Interviews and Conversations - July 02, 2021 06:50 - 9 minutesKenneth 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 as...
Snippets from the Audio Archive II - Mike Muendane and Vuyisile Dlova
BAB Interviews and Conversations - June 04, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutesIn 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...
Snippets from the Audio Archive II
BAB Interviews and Conversations - June 04, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutesIn 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...
Returning Home
BAB Interviews and Conversations - May 04, 2021 06:00 - 13 minutesLewis 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 gav...
Returning Home - Lewis Nkosi
BAB Interviews and Conversations - May 04, 2021 06:00 - 13 minutesLewis 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 gav...
Snippets from the Audio Archive I - Libertina Amathila and Ruth Weiss
BAB Interviews and Conversations - March 16, 2021 08:25 - 19 minutesIn 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, gen...
Snippets from the Audio Archive I
BAB Interviews and Conversations - March 16, 2021 08:25 - 19 minutesIn 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, gen...
African Collections and Decoloniality
BAB Interviews and Conversations - November 13, 2020 11:05 - 9 minutesNashilongweshipwe 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 ch...
African Collections and Decoloniality - Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja
BAB Interviews and Conversations - November 13, 2020 11:05 - 9 minutesNashilongweshipwe 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 ch...
Namibian historiography - Vilho Shigwedha
BAB Interviews and Conversations - October 16, 2020 10:06 - 14 minutesVilho 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 a...
Namibian historiography II
BAB Interviews and Conversations - October 16, 2020 10:06 - 14 minutesVilho 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 a...
South African history research
BAB Interviews and Conversations - September 11, 2020 10:07 - 13 minutesIn 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
South African history research - Patrick Harries
BAB Interviews and Conversations - September 11, 2020 10:07 - 13 minutesIn 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
Bittercomix - Anton Kannemeyer
BAB Interviews and Conversations - May 12, 2020 09:53 - 15 minutesIn 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, publi...
Bittercomix
BAB Interviews and Conversations - May 12, 2020 09:53 - 15 minutesIn 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, publi...
Mozambican film
BAB Interviews and Conversations - May 11, 2020 09:52 - 18 minutesJoão 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...
Mozambican film - João Ribeiro
BAB Interviews and Conversations - May 11, 2020 09:52 - 18 minutesJoão 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...
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