by 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 theme. The catalogues are found on www.baslerafrika.ch.
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February 25, 2025
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 window to the past”. After a series of historical photography explorations, we now jointly curate past Namibian voices in aural graphs. In this extract from a public presentation in Basel on 24 July 2024, Ngamije reflects on the path he and his colleagues walked to imagine new literary futures in Windhoek. Today, five years later, he is an established writer and Doek! is not only a thriving magazine but also a prominent literary award and festival beacon.
September 20, 2024
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 Dag Henrichsen zunächst über die Bedeutung von Freundschafts- und Solidaritätsbeziehungen mit afrikanischen Bewegungen in einem schwierigen politischem Umfeld (zu letzterem siehe auch den früheren podcast mit Barbara Müller vom 9. März 2023). Im zweiten Teil skizziert sie Veränderungen in der Unterstützungsarbeit am Beispiel der Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) und mit Bezug auf die Unabhängigkeit Zimbabwes 1980. Dieser Auszug aus einem Gespräch vom 22. März 2023 bildet die siebte und vorläufig letzte Episode in der Podcast-Reihe zur Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegung in der Schweiz.
July 26, 2024
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 collection and her reflections. The conversation took place as part of the preparations for the BAB exhibition “’My very first question to you’. An acoustic portrait of the journalist Ruth Weiss and southern African liberation politics”, shown between 2014 and 2917 in Basel, Cape Town, Lusaka, and Bayreuth. The exhibition went along with the publication of her autobiography “A Path through Hard Grass. A Journalist’s Memories of Exile and Apartheid” (BAB 2014), with a foreword by South African writer Nadine Gordimer, Ruth Weiss’s lifelong friend about whom she also talks in the conversation. The recording also features snippets from interviews with the Anglican bishop Trevor Huddleston and ANC’s president Oliver Tambo. This podcast episode is a fitting format to congratulate Ruth Weiss on her 100th birthday in 2024.
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