Basel Africa Bibliographies
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 33 '6.7 " N , 7 ° 35' 24.1" E |
| place | Basel |
| Visitor address | Klosterberg 23, 4001 Basel |
| founding | 1971 |
| ISIL | CH-000769-X |
| Website | baslerafrika.ch |
The Basler Afrika Bibliographien ( BAB ) are a documentation and competence center in the Swiss city of Basel . The BAB are dedicated to Namibia and other parts of southern Africa and are an archive , specialist library and publisher in one.
They were founded in 1971 by Carl Schlettwein (1925–2005), who “lived for a long time in the 1950s and 1960s in what was then South West Africa (now Namibia)” and systematically collected literature on this country.
The general library includes written publications with collections of published rarities (“with books on Africa since the 16th century”), posters, maps and city maps, as well as films. The publisher publishes humanities literature on Namibia and southern Africa. The archive and the documentation center contain unpublished documents, photographs, postcards, sound and film material. The institution also offers "scientific, cultural and socio-political events".
Web links
- Literature from and about Basel Africa Bibliographies in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature from and about Basler Afrika Bibliographien in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Basler Afrika Bibliographien in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Website of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien
- Ruedi Suter : Anniversary without a jubilee Carl Schlettwein: Extension of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien on Klosterberg inaugurated. In: OnlineReports , February 6, 2005.