BAB Interviews and Conversations

BAB Interviews and Conversations

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

Episodes 27
Avg. Duration 17m
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Since May 2020
Latest Episode Sep 2025

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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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«My very first question to you”. In memory of Ruth Weiss (1924-2025)

Sep 19, 2025 4m

A long-lasting collaboration and friendship has ended: BAB is mourning the passing of anti-apartheid journalist and writer Ruth Weiss at the age of 101. We are humbled by her unwavering trust…

Doek! Reflections by Rémy Ngamije on becoming a writer and founding a literary magazine in Namibia

Feb 25, 2025 15m

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…

Kritische Rückblicke: Barbara Müller über Solidarität und Freundschaft mit Befreiungsbewegungen in der Schweiz und in Zi

Sep 20, 2024 21m

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…

Liberation Politics and Archives. A Conversation with Journalist Ruth Weiss

Jul 26, 2024 29m

Archive talk at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (2013) 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…

Kritische Rückblicke: Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidsengagement des Afrika-Komitees, Basel

Jun 14, 2024 21m

Gertrud Baud und Hans-Ueli Stauffer ziehen Resümee 1973 als Teil einer Solidaritätsbewegung gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Ausbeutung in der Schweiz entstanden, konzentrierte sich das…

Tuli Mekondjo‘s art performance „Ousie Martha“

Oct 12, 2023 12m

A conversation with the artist on the reverberations from the colonial image archive The Namibian artist Tuli Mekondjo reflects in this conversation about her work in the colonial image archives of…

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegungen in der Schweiz – „kämpfendes afrika“ (Zürich)

Mar 09, 2023 24m

Barbara Müller, das Komitee „kämpfendes afrika“ und staatliche Eingriffe in der Schweiz, 1971-1988 Barbara Müller fungierte von 1973 bis 1988 als Präsidentin des Komitees «kämpfendes afrika» (ka),…

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegungen in der Schweiz – Komitee Südliches Afrika (Zürich)

Dec 21, 2022 20m

Susy Greuter und ihr Afrika-Engagement in Zürich in den 1970er Jahren Susy Greuter erinnert sich im Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen an ihr vielfältiges Engagement zum afrikanischen…

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der Schweiz – Südafrika-Boykott

Jul 14, 2022 16m

Beatrice Felber Rochat und ihr Engagement in Basel in den 1980er Jahren Beatrice Felber Rochat erinnert sich im Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen an ihr frühes Engagement in der von…

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der Schweiz – Das Afrika-Komitee Basel

May 10, 2022 16m

Gertrud Baud und ihr Engagement im Afrika-Komitee, Basel 1973 als Teil einer Solidaritätsbewegung gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Ausbeutung in der Schweiz entstanden, konzentriert sich das…

Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheid-Bewegungen in der Schweiz – Das Afrika-Komitee Basel

Mar 22, 2022 34m

Hans-Ulrich Stauffer und die Anfänge des Afrika-Komitees, Basel 1973 als Teil einer Solidaritätsbewegung gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Ausbeutung in der Schweiz entstanden, konzentriert sich das…

The Day Mandela is arrested – Lewis Nkosi

Feb 18, 2022 23m

Reading and conversation with Lewis Nkosi, Basel 1999 Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and professor of literature in various…

Snippets from the Audio Archive VI – Carol and Ron Gestwicki

Nov 19, 2021 10m

Audio letters from Carol and Ron Gestwicki, Gobabis 1965 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…

Snippets from the Audio Archive V – Freedom Nyamubaya and Ruth Weiss

Oct 15, 2021 12m

Freedom Tichaona Nyamubaya in conversation with journalist Ruth Weiss, 6 May 1982 Freedom Tichaona Nyamubaya (1958 – 2015) was a Zimbabwean freedom fighter, activist and poet. In 1975, she left what…

Zur Geschichte der BAB, mit Albert M. Debrunner

Sep 02, 2021 11m

Gespräch von Dag Henrichsen und Daniela Schlettwein-Gsell mit Albert M. Debrunner über die BAB in den frühen 1990er Jahren, Juni 2018 Die BAB blicken 2021 auf 50 Jahre Institutsgeschichte zurück.…

Snippets from the Audio Archive IV – Sister Janice McLaughlin and Ruth Weiss

Aug 06, 2021 14m

Sister Janice in conversation with journalist Ruth Weiss, 30th July 1982 In this extract from an interview Ruth Weiss conducted with Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin (1942–2021) in Harare…

Snippets from the Audio Archive III - Kenneth Kaunda and Ruth Weiss

Jul 02, 2021 9m

Kenneth Kaunda in conversation with journalist Ruth Weiss, 30 March 1977 Kenneth Kaunda (1924–2021) was the first State President of independent Zambia. On March 30, 1977 Ruth Weiss conducted an…

Snippets from the Audio Archive II - Mike Muendane and Vuyisile Dlova

Jun 04, 2021 24m

Event of the solidarity committee “kämpfendes afrika” with PAC representatives Mike Muendane and Vuyisile Dlova, Zurich, March 1980 In the 1970s and 1980s, the political solidarity committee…

Returning Home - Lewis Nkosi

May 04, 2021 13m

Conversation with Lewis Nkosi, South African journalist, writer and professor of literature, November 1999 Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), was an acclaimed…

Snippets from the Audio Archive I - Libertina Amathila and Ruth Weiss

Mar 16, 2021 19m

The Ruth Weiss Collection - Interview with Libertina Amathila, September 1979 In this extract from an interview by Ruth Weiss on September 28, 1979 the then “first and only” Namibian medical doctor,…

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