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 the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in August 2015. In this interview he talks about becoming a historian and researching the controversial history of the Cassinga massacre in southern Angola in 1978 during the Namibian liberation struggle

In this extract of a conversation with the BAB archivist about his audio research archive, Patrick Harries, who passed away in 2016, reflects about his early career as a historian, researcher and lecturer at the University of Cape Town in the 1970s and 1980s

In this extract from a Lunch Talk with a Basler Afrika Bibliographien librarian and a wider audience, the South African comix artist Anton Kannemeyer reflects about the early history of comix and cartoons in South Africa, his own career and the history of the controversial Bittercomix No 1, published in 1992

João Ribeiro is manager, documentalist and producer for film and TV production at Kanema Produçoes Maputo and independent film director in Mozambique. He visited the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in September 2015 at the occasion of showing his film „O Ultimo Voo do Flamingo“ in the BAB film series „mozambique in motion“. In this interview with the BAB Managing Director he talks about the challenges of movie making in his country and state funding for cultural activities in Mozambique.

Martha Akawa is the Head of the Department of Geography, History and Environmental Studies at the Unversity of Namibia in Windhoek. She and a group of students visited the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in August 2015. In this interview with a BAB archivist she talks about becoming a historian, her research interests and history debates in Namibia.

Introducing Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). The podcast series "Interviews and Conversations" features past and recent interviews with scholars and BAB guests as well as selected recordings from the BAB audio archive.