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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 over nearly 30 years in our...
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BAB Interviews and Conversations
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About this Podcast:
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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What is BAB Interviews and Conversations about?
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.
What has BAB Interviews and Conversations covered recently?
Recent episodes include "«My very first question to you”. In memory of Ruth Weiss (1924-2025)" (19 September 2025, 5 minutes), "Doek! Reflections by Rémy Ngamije on becoming a writer and founding a literary magazine in Namibia" (25 February 2025, 16 minutes), and "Kritische Rückblicke: Barbara Müller über Solidarität und Freundschaft mit Befreiungsbewegungen in der Schweiz und in Zi" (20 September 2024, 22 minutes).
How often does BAB Interviews and Conversations publish?
BAB Interviews and Conversations publishes roughly irregularly, with episodes averaging 18 minutes across 27 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on BAB Interviews and Conversations?
Booking probability for BAB Interviews and Conversations is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. BAB Interviews and Conversations requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. BAB Interviews and Conversations's contact route on record: verified email.
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BAB Interviews and Conversations is a history podcast with 27 episodes published.
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Episode #26
Doek! Reflections by Rémy Ngamije on becoming a writer and founding a literary magazine in Namibia
Feb 25, 202516 minS0Doek! 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...
Sep 20, 202422 minS0Barbara 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...
Jul 26, 202430 minS0Archive 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 series...
Episode #23
Kritische Rückblicke: Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidsengagement des Afrika-Komitees, Basel
Jun 14, 202422 minS0Gertrud Baud und Hans-Ueli Stauffer ziehen Resümee 1973 als Teil einer Solidaritätsbewegung gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Ausbeutung in der Schweiz entstanden, konzentrierte sich das Afrika-Komitee in Basel auf...
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Oct 12, 202312 minS0A conversation with the artist on the reverberations from the colonial image archive <p>The Namibian artist Tuli Mekondjo reflects in this conversation about her work in the colonial image archives of the Basler Afrika...
Mar 9, 202324 minS0Barbara Müller, das Komitee „kämpfendes afrika“ und staatliche Eingriffe in der Schweiz, 1971-1988 <p>Barbara Müller fungierte von 1973 bis 1988 als Präsidentin des Komitees «kämpfendes afrika» (ka), das 1971 in Zürich...
Episode #20
Solidaritäts- und Anti-Apartheidbewegungen in der Schweiz – Komitee Südliches Afrika (Zürich)
Dec 21, 202220 minS0Susy Greuter und ihr Afrika-Engagement in Zürich in den 1970er Jahren <p>Susy Greuter erinnert sich im Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen an ihr vielfältiges Engagement zum afrikanischen Kontinent, zunächst...
Jul 14, 202217 minS0Beatrice Felber Rochat und ihr Engagement in Basel in den 1980er Jahren <p>Beatrice Felber Rochat erinnert sich im Gespräch mit dem BAB Archivar Dag Henrichsen an ihr frühes Engagement in der von christlichen Frauen...
May 10, 202216 minS0Gertrud 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 Afrika-Komitee in Basel...
Mar 22, 202234 minS0Hans-Ulrich Stauffer und die Anfänge des Afrika-Komitees, Basel <p>1973 als Teil einer Solidaritätsbewegung gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Ausbeutung in der Schweiz entstanden, konzentriert sich das Afrika-Komitee...
Episode #16
The Day Mandela is arrested – Lewis Nkosi
Feb 18, 202223 minS0Reading and conversation with Lewis Nkosi, Basel 1999 <p>Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and professor of literature in various African and...
Nov 19, 202110 minS0Audio 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 in Windhoek’s African...
Oct 15, 202113 minS0Freedom Tichaona Nyamubaya in conversation with journalist Ruth Weiss, 6 May 1982 <p>Freedom Tichaona Nyamubaya (1958 – 2015) was a Zimbabwean freedom fighter, activist and poet. In 1975, she left what was then Rhodesia...
Sep 2, 202111 minS0Gespräch von Dag Henrichsen und Daniela Schlettwein-Gsell mit Albert M. Debrunner über die BAB in den frühen 1990er Jahren, Juni 2018 <p>Die BAB blicken 2021 auf 50 Jahre Institutsgeschichte zurück. 1971 von Carl...
Aug 6, 202115 minS0Sister 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 (Zimbabwe) on 30th July 1982...
Jul 2, 20219 minS0Kenneth 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 interview with Kaunda in...
Jun 4, 202124 minS0Event of the solidarity committee “kämpfendes afrika” with PAC representatives Mike Muendane and Vuyisile Dlova, Zurich, March 1980 <p>In the 1970s and 1980s, the political solidarity committee “kämpfendes afrika”...
Episode #9
Returning Home - Lewis Nkosi
May 4, 202113 minS0Conversation with Lewis Nkosi, South African journalist, writer and professor of literature, November 1999 <p>Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and...
Mar 16, 202119 minS0The Ruth Weiss Collection - Interview with Libertina Amathila, September 1979 <p>In this extract from an interview by Ruth Weiss on September 28, 1979 the then “first and only” Namibian medical doctor, Libertina...
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Ruth Weiss
Election Integrity Project California
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Barbara Müller
Komitee kämpfendes afrika
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Mike Muendane
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
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Libertina Amathila
SWAPO
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