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Doctoral Thesis

Seydi, Ousmane. Voyages, correspondances et construction du savoir scientifique à l'époque moderne: Les naturalistes de la Compagnie francais des Indes (1730-1815). 2019, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Aeby, Michael. 'Zimbabwe's Gruelling Transition: Interim power-sharing and conflict management in Southern Africa' (Drittgutachten). 2016, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dreier, Marcel. Health Care, Welfare and Development in Rural Africa: The Case of the Catholic Health Services in Ifakara/Tanzania in the 20th Century. 2015, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Guyer, Nanina. Picturing Secrecy - A History of the Visualization of "Secret Societies" in Historical Photographs from West Africa. 2015, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schicketanz, Nicolas. A History of Teacher Training Colleges in South Africa and the Effects of Teacher Training on Identity Formation. 2015, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dreier, Marcel. Health, welfare and development in rural Africa : Catholic medical mission and the configuration of development in Ulanga/Tanzania, 1920-1970. 2015, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Giustizieri-Haberstroh, Christine. Writing the City: Narratives of Johannesburg's Urban Space in South African Literature. 2014, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schmid, Pascal. Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo: A History of Rural Health Care in Ghana (ca. 1925 to 1990). 2014, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Kesselring, Rita. The South African social movement for reparations and its legal interventions. 2013, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Meier, Lukas. Striving for Excellence at the Margins. Science, Decolonization, and the History of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in (post-)colonial Africa, 1943-2000. 2012, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schneider, Jürg. Exploring the Atlantic Visualscape. Eine Geschichte der Fotografie in West- und Zentralafrika, 1840-1890. 2011, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Akawa, Martha. The sexual politics of the Namibian liberation struggle. 2010, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Miescher, Giorgio. Die Rote Linie: Eine Geschichte der innernamibischen Polizei-, Siedlungs- und Veterinärgrenze (1980er - 1960er Jahre). 2010, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Rizzo, Lorena. Gender & Colonialism. A History of Kaoko (north-western Namibia) between the 1870s and the 1950s. 2010, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Yéré, Henri Michel. Citizenship, Nationality and History in Côte d'Ivoire, 1929-1999. 2010, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Sill, Ulrike. Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood. The Basel Mission in Pre- and Early Colonial Ghana. 2008, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Arlt, Veit. Christianity, imperialism and culture : the expansion of the two Krobo states in Ghana, c. 1830 to 1930. 2005, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Arlt, Veit. Christianity and Culture on the Southern Gold Coast. The Appropriation of Global Processes in the two Krobo States ca. 1860 - 1918. 2005, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Grogan, Patrick. The Berlin-Cape Nexus: Early Nineteenth-Century German Naturalists in the Cape Colony. Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Hammel, Tanja. Shaping Science and Society at the Cape – A Relational History of Mary Elizabeth Barber. Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Voegeli, Anna. Notions of democracy in the local histories of a rural village in Limpopo Province, South Africa: Shiluvane. Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Master Thesis

Chansa, Jennifer. The Development of Mine Labour in Colonial Zambia: An Analysis of the Godfrey Wilson Papers on Broken Hill Mine (1924-1941). 2014, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Grogan, Patrick. 'Improving the Cape Colony, 1815-1821: The Perspectives of Sir Jahleel Brenton'. 2014, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Oderinde, Peter Ayoola. The Rise of African Immigrant Entrepreneurs. A Case Study of Nigerians in the Economy of South Africa, 1994-2012. 2014, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Albisser, Raphael. United States Anti-Slave Trade Laws in Southeast Africa. The Implementation of American Law in the Final Years of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 2013, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Franz, Tobias. «Join the Caravan» - Von der Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) zu al-Qaida im islamischen Maghreb (AQIM). 2013, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Aubert, Etienne. A Hundred Years of Public History in South Africa: 1910 - 2010. 2012, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Lortie, Leona. Colonial Representations: German Colonial Literature during the Maji Maji rebellion of 1905-07. 2012, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Lüthy, Corinne. History of Water in Burkino Faso. 2012, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Poisson, Olivia. Hans Vischer and the International African Institute. The Maturation of Academic Discipline as a Historical Process. 2012, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schelling, Anna. Trading at the mouth of the Volta: The Basel Mission in Ada, 1870-1914. 2012, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Zumthurm, Tizian. Historical Climatology of Central & Southern Namibia in the 19th Century. 2012, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schönmann, Florian. Universal Men in Narrow-Minded Times. Postcolonial Identity and Anti-Apartheid Politics in the Music of Jonny Clegg. 2011, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schürer-Ries, Anke. Photographic encounters and knowledge production: the work of Anneliese Scherz and Ruth Danmman on the Khoi-San. 2011, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Affentranger, Lukas. From «the native is the enemy of the forest» towards «community based natural resources management»: A History of Forest Exploitation in Mozambique. 2010, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Bishop, Stephanie. Waterscape and Socio-Natural Transformations in South Africa. 2010, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Jahn, Bettina. When the Political Becomes Personal: Political Consciousness in Black South African Women's Autobiography (1985-1995). 2010, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Neugebauer, Inge. Ein Jahrzehnt der Ungewissheit: Von der Segregation zur Apartheid in einer südafrikanischen Schule: Lemana Training Institution 1948 - 1958. 2010, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Suter, Franziska. John Forbes (1799-1823): The Role of the Royal Navy in Promoting Scientific Exploration. 2010, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Ulrich, Reto. August Kussmauls Reise durch Südafrika: Annotation und Kontextualisierung eines Reiseberichtes aus dem Jahr 1883. 2010, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Aeby, Michael. The independent democrats: A case study in opposition politics in post-apartheid South Africa. 2009, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Lenggenhager, Luregn. Zwischen Zeit und Bild: Der Bildkalender als historische Quelle am Beispiel der Sammlung namibischer Kalender der Basler Afrika Bibliographien. 2009, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Mashuna, Timo. The 1978 elections: South Africa`s decolonisation plan for Namibia. 2009, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Näf, Sandra. Hinrich Lichtenstein: a natural historian in Africa and Europe (ZfAS, Basel). 2009, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Vögeli, Anna. Improving the Cattle, Developing the Colony: Exploring the History of Cattle Imports into Namibia during the German Colonial Period (1893-1915). 2009, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Brühwiler, Benjamin. MANaging bankruptcy. Masculinities in Dar es Salaam, 1985-1990. 2008, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Gastrow, Claudia. Designing Dystopias: Social Security in South Africa c. 1939 - 1946. 2008, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Manuela, Nyffenegger. Wahrheit und Dichtung in den Lebensgeschichten von ehemaligen Sklavenkindern in Sansibar. Ein Vergleich von Anton Horners/ Jean-Joseph Gaumes Suema und A.C. Madans Kiungani. 2008, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Probst, Stephan. Vom Isango zur Jazz Band: Eine Geschichte der Duala und ihrer Musik, ca. 1600 bis heute. 2008, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schubert, Jon. Dez jogadores contra um guarda-rede. Angola: The Dynamics of State and Civil Society 2002-2007. 2008, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Staehelin, Sarah. Elim Hospital 1899 - 1906. A Swiss Mission Hospital in the Transvaal. 2008, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dickinson, Elisabeth. The Post-9/11 ‘Spinning of the Frank Church Legacy: The Intelligence Oversight Struggles between the U.S. Congress and the White House 1975 to 2001. 2007, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Rueedi, Franziska. Opening Up Space, Challenging Boundaries: The Church and Social Movements in the Vaal Triangle of South Africa c. 1975-1985. 2007, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schön, Christoph. Mission im Kontext. Der Missionar als kolonialer Akteur. Hermann Gundert in Malabar. 2007, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Rodriguez, Susanne. Mit Gott für Kaiser und Reich. Victor Franke - ein kolonialer Kriegsheld und seine Tagebücher. 2006, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Yéré, Henri Michel. The Cultural Biography of a Generation. Zouglou Music and Youth in Côte d'Ivoire, 1965-1999. 2006, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schmid, Pascal. Den Unterdrückten eine Stimme geben! Selbstverständnis, Deutungsmuster und Handlungsstrategien der Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung der Deutschschweiz. 2004, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Schneider, Jürg. Haarrisse der Macht - Aspekte einer regionalen Kolonialgeschichte am Mount Cameroon. 2003, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Franc, Andrea. Der Kakaohandel der Basler Missionsgesellschaft mit Ghana 1893-1914. 2002, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Giustizieri-Haberstroh, Christine. "City of Gold - City of Sorrow". A Thematic Analysis of the "Jim Comes to Joburg" - genre in South African Literature, 1911-1948. 2002, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Martin, Matti Johan. Zwischen Befreiung und Unterdrückung; die finnische Mission im Ovamboland 1960-1969. 2002, Master Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.