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Author: Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) - Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library

BAB is a centre of documentation and expertise on Namibia and southern Africa, located in Basel, Switzerland. Our podcast features extracts from past and recent interviews with scholars and BAB guests as well as selected recordings from the extensive southern African historical audio archive curated at the BAB. The series maintains a loose format. Listeners may also want to consult the BAB online catalogues of the archive, library and publishing house for additional information about a scholar or theme. The catalogues are found on www.baslerafrika.ch.
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Doek! Reflections by Rémy Ngamije on becoming a writer and founding a literary magazine in Namibia
Episode 26
Tuesday, 25 February, 2025

Doek! is an online literary magazine published in Windhoek since 2019. It has brought to the front new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art —to much acclaim. Experimental and daring in various ways, its beautifully curated editions have enriched Africa’s literary and visual landscape quite unexpectedly. Early on, Rémy Ngamije, one of the co-founders, invited the Basler Afrika Bibliographien to contribute glimpses from its archival holdings and within the curatorial frame of providing “a window to the past”. After a series of historical photography explorations, we now jointly curate past Namibian voices in aural graphs. In this extract from a public presentation in Basel on 24 July 2024, Ngamije reflects on the path he and his colleagues walked to imagine new literary futures in Windhoek. Today, five years later, he is an established writer and Doek! is not only a thriving magazine but also a prominent literary award and festival beacon.