Basler Afrika Bibliographien

05/06/2026

If you are in Windhoek next Thursday, join the book launch

"Workers, Trade Unions and Politics in Namibia: A Long Journey of Resistance"

Date: 11th June 2026
Time: 6pm
Venue: Gateway Centre, Hans-Dietrich Genscher Street, Khomasdal, Windhoek

RSVP with Herbert Jauch
Refreshments and books for sale📚✨

03/06/2026

If you are in Berlin this Saturday, check out the opening of FRACTURED LIFEWORLDS

FRACTURED LIFEWORLDS unfolds across three seasons — Bush, Wind, Sand — tracing different landscapes of the Ovaherero and Nama genocide and its afterlives through satellite imagery, archival research, spatial analysis, oral histories, and digital reconstruction.

Each season features contributions by Namibian artists responding to the thematic focus of each phase of the exhibition, creating a living dialogue between artistic practice and investigative research. Contributions by Isabel Katjavivi, Tuli Mekondjo, Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Nesindano Namises amongst others.

Exhibition: 6 June 2026 – 30 April 2027
Opening: 6 June 2026, doors open at 4pm
Location: Spore Initiative, Berlin

see the website for more information👇

Spore Initiative, Berlin, Germany → 06.06.2026 - 30.04.2027

30/05/2026

Latest donation of music cassettes and CDs to the library

Among these new additions to our audio collection, the cassette ‘Namibia Will Be Free’ by Onyeka (The Torch) and the SWAPO Cultural Group is particularly significant to us, as we previously only had this recording on vinyl.

27/05/2026

Check out our newest BAB publication

"Workers, Trade Unions and Politics in Namibia: A Long Journey of Resistance"
by Herbert Jauch

now available from our webshop👇
https://baslerafrika.ch/en-ch/products/herbert-jauch-workers-trade-unions-and-politics-in-namibia-a-long-journey-of-resistance

22/05/2026

Join the panel discussion on 26 May “After Restitution: Museums as Archives for New African Histories”, we are launching a debate: How does the dialogue between universities, museums, and civil society give rise to new research perspectives on African history? How do we shape research and museum work against the backdrop of global inequalities? And why does restitution concern us all?

Time: May 26, 2026, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Bern History Museum, Helvetiaplatz 5, 3005 Bern�

18/05/2026

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
in collaboration with Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel

The last presentation will take place on Wednesday 20.05.2026

"Genocide or War?: Conceptual Confusion in Understanding the Destruction of Gaza" by Dirk Moses (City College of New York)

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]

16/05/2026

Join two Namibian artists for a Lunch Talk on Thursday 21 May 2026 presenting current projects.

"Ancestral Archives, Resonant Bodies, Material Explorations" by Tjijandjeua »Gift« Uzera and Tweyapewa Ndapandula Mbendeka

Venue: Basler Afrika Bibliographien,
Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel
Time: Thursday 21 May 2026: 12.15-14.00 pm.

13/05/2026

The BAB will be closed from Thursday 14 to 18 May

08/05/2026

Join the public lecture next Tuesday 12 May, 2026, at 3:00 pm (UTC)

Professor Henriette Gunkel (Ruhr-University Bochum) will deliver a lecture on "Desert Scenes: Transformative Relationality in Genocidal Extractive Zones“
in the MIASA Seminar Room & via Zoom.

For online participation please use the following link:

https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/62755317882?pwd=VkfYvWhMASasyExaaaVAfEfB3FGZjC.1

Meeting-ID: 627 5531 7882
Code: R1MbYUNN4

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