The series “Interviews and Conversations” features interviews with scholars and guests as well as selected recordings from the audio archive of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB).
The series maintains an informal form Listeners may also want to consult the BAB online catalogues for additional information on a scholar or theme.
In this extract of a conversation with the BAB archivist about his interview collection, Patrick Harries reflects about his early career as a historian, researcher and lecturer at the University of Cape Town in the 1970s and 1980s.