BAB Interviews and Conversations
Episode Archive
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Snippets from the Audio Archive VI – Carol and Ron Gestwicki
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 township, the Old Location, and...
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Snippets from the Audio Archive V – Freedom Nyamubaya and Ruth Weiss
Freedom 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 Mo...
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Zur Geschichte der BAB, mit Albert M. Debrunner
Die 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 Ra...
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Snippets from the Audio Archive IV – Sister Janice McLaughlin and Ruth Weiss
In 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 ...
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Snippets from the Audio Archive III - Kenneth Kaunda and Ruth Weiss
Kenneth 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 ...
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Snippets from the Audio Archive II - Mike Muendane and Vuyisile Dlova
In 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...
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Returning Home - Lewis Nkosi
Lewis 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 U...
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Snippets from the Audio Archive I - Libertina Amathila and Ruth Weiss
In 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 Li...
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African Collections and Decoloniality - Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja
Nashilongweshipwe 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 it...
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Namibian historiography - Vilho Shigwedha
Vilho 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 t...