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Finally online: PARC

Name: 11th Namibia Research Day, 17th & 18th October 2025: Call for Papers
Start: 2025-10-17T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Visit www.parc-portal.org to explore the meta catalogue for all Africana collections in Basel.

New at the BAB Publishing House

New Publication:
Defending the Investment

New Publication:
Narrating Africa – Narrating Namibia

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Film

The small historical film collection in the archive (8mm films, VHS cassettes) are digitised in an ongoing process. Due to copyright restrictions most film documents can only be accessed on the premises.

Selected film material can be viewed here: Formats & Insights.

Video tutorial: Search for historical films in the archive catalogue