Southern Africa & Namibia Studies

This package of 58 titles is drawn from across BAB’s different title lists. It offers a holistic and multi-faceted overview of Namibia and Southern Africa, covering its history, politics, and culture from the 19th century to the present, with a specific focus on 20th-century politics, colonialism, socio-cultural change, and Namibian identity. The collection primarily consists of monographs but includes diverse perspectives, from academic analysis to biographical accounts. It is a vital collection on southern Africa past and present and is further enriched by a dedicated African Studies series with a continental scope, featuring lectures by internationally recognised scholars such as Toyin Falola, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, and Mirjam de Bruijn. Seven additional Open Access titles are included to perfectly complement and expand upon the core themes of the collection.

The books in this package are shown below if you scroll down past the fees table, or you can click on this icon to download the list of titles, authors, ISBN and year of publication in .xls format. Once the payment is processed access to titles will be provided at the start of the next calendar year or you can choose to start it immediately. Access to the titles in the package becomes automatically perpetual at the end of the 3-year period.

Table of fees

Library and institutional members are tiered. Banding for US Institutions is tiered based on the Basic Classification from Carnegie Classification. In Canada we use the CRKN banding system and in the UK bandings are based on Jisc classifications. Based on this, our annual membership fees are:

Band	2026	2027	2028
Associate’s Colleges / CRKN Bands 1–5 / Small UK HEIs / Rest of World Small HEIs	$995 / £750 / € 850	$1045 / £790 / € 893	$1100 / £830 / € 937
Baccalaureate/Master’s Colleges & Universities / CRKN Bands 6–9 / Medium-sized UK HEIs / Rest of World Medium-sized HEIs	$1700/ £1270 / € 1450	$1785 / £1335 / € 1523	$1875 / £1400 / € 1599
Doctoral Universities / CRKN Bands 10–13 / Large UK HEIs / Rest of World Large HEIs	$2690 / £2000 / € 2300	$2825 / £2100 / € 2415	$2965 / £2205 / € 2536

Membership is for a minimum of three years. The slight rise in membership fees for 2027-2028 reflects rising inflation rates alongside rising production costs for publishers globally. The renewed fees allow BAB to continue to use membership revenue solely to produce new OA monographs, moving towards an affordable, sustainable model for the future of academic publishing. And while the rises are around 5%, in real terms they are no more than a rise of around €40 to €120 a year.

Shown in table are annual fees in USD (US Dollars, $) / GBP (Pound Sterling, £) / EUR (Euros, €) , excluding VAT.

You can also prepay your entire 3-year subscription up-front. The one-off payment option benefits from a fixed annual price with no price increase during the 3-year term.

Once the payment is processed access to titles will be provided at the start of the next calendar year or you can choose to start it immediately. Access to the titles in the package becomes automatically perpetual at the end of the 3-year period.

African Studies and Namibian Studies

Willem Odendaal, “Beggars on our own land ...” Tsumib v Government of the Republic of Namibia and its Implications for Ancestral Land Claims in Namibia, 2023, 978-3-906927-61-9

Sonja Gierse-Arsten, Transition Towards Gender Equality. Namibia Between the Empowerment of Women and Violence of Men, 2023, 978-3-906927-55-8

Lovisa Tegelala Nampala, Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1945, 2023, 978-3-906927-48-0

Job Shipululo Amupanda, Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia. Diamond Smuggling, Migrant Workers and Development in Owamboland, 2022, 978-3-906927-46-6

Tichaona Mazarire, Exploring Economic Reintegration in Namibia. Individual Trajectories of PLAN Ex-Fighters and SWAPO Exiles, 1989–2018, 2023, 978-3-906927-34-3

Jack Boulton, Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It. Men, Relatedness and Intimacy in Swakopmund, Namibia, 2021, 978-3-906927-30-5

Kletus Muhena Likuwa, Voices from the Kavango. A Study of the Contract Labour System in Namibia, 1925–1972, 2020, 978-3-906927-20-6

Thorsten Kern, West Germany and Namibia’s Path to Independence, 1969–1990. Foreign Policy and Rivalry with East Germany, 2019, 978-3-906927-24-4

Cameron Welch, “Land is Life, Conservancy is Life.” The San and the N‡a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia, 2018, 978-3-906927-03-9

Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People. Nature Conservation, Development and War in North-Eastern Namibia since the 1920s, 2018, 978-3-906927-01-5

Jennifer Hays, Owners of Learning. The Nyae Nyae Village Schools over Twenty-Five Years, 2016, 978-3-905758-82-3

Michael Akuupa, National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia. State-sponsored Cultural Festivals and their Histories, 2015, 978-3-905758-69-6

Lorena Rizzo, Gender and Colonialism. A History of Kaoko in north-western Namibia, 1870–1950s, 2012, 978-3-905758-49-8

Martha Akawa, The Gender Politics of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, 2014, 978-3-905758-50-4

Julie J. Taylor, Naming the Land. San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia’s West Caprivi, 2012, 978-3-905758-53-5

Inge Tvedten, “As Long as They Don’t Bury Me Here.” Social Relations of Poverty in a Namibian Shantytown, 2011, 978-3-905758-44-3

Bennett Kangumu, Contesting Caprivi. A History of Colonial Isolation and Regional Nationalism in Namibia, 2011, 978-3-905758-46-7

James Merron, Building Trust, Situating Repair. An Ecology of Action in a South African Nature Reserve, 2024, 978-3-906927-53-4

Caroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century, 2023, 978-3-906927-38-1

Fabian Lehmann, Postkoloniale Gegenbilder. Künstlerische Reflexionen des Erinnerns an den deutschen Kolonialismus in Namibia, 2021, 978-3-906927-28-2

Renzo Baas, Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire. An Excursion into the Literary Space of Namibia During Colonialism, Apartheid and the Liberation Struggle, 2019, 978-3-906927-09-1

Minette Mans, The Changing Faces of Aawambo Musical Arts, 2017, 978-3-905758-94-8

Lukas Breitwieser, Die Geschichte des Tourismus in Namibia. Eine heterotopische Topologie der Technik, 2016, 978-3-905758-85-6

Ursula Scheidegger, Transformation from Below? White Suburbia in the Transformation of Apartheid South Africa to Democracy, 2015, 978-3-905758-71-9

Gregor Dobler, Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland, 1925–1990. Elite Formation and the Politics of Consumption under Indirect Rule and Apartheid, 2015, 978-3-905758-56-6

Giorgio Miescher, Die Rote Linie. Geschichte der Veterinär- und Siedlungsgrenze in Namibia, 1890er–1960er Jahre, 2013, 978-3-905758-64-1

Johann Alexander Müller, The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile. Botswana’s Role in the Namibian Liberation Struggle, 2012, 978-3-905758-52-8

Martin Chatfield Legassick, The Politics of a South African Frontier. The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780–1840, 2010, 978-3-905758-55-9

Kwandiwe Kondlo, In the Twilight of the Revolution. The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) 1959–1994, 2009, 978-3-905758-51-1

Uta Dieckmann, Hai||om in the Etosha Region. A History of Colonial Settlement, Ethnicity and Nature Conservation, 2007, 978-3-905758-63-4

Hans-Martin Milk, God’s Feet or the Mission’s Pack Donkey. Evangelists of Namibia, 2023, 978-3-906927-36-7

Alan Cohen, Tanja Hammel, Jasmin Rindlisbacher, Mary Elizabeth Barber Growing Wild. The Correspondence of a Pioneering Woman Naturalist from the Cape, 2020, 978-3-906927-05-3

Ulla Dentlinger, Where are you from? ‘Playing White’ under Apartheid, 2016, 978-3-905758-97-9

Ruth Weiss, A Path through Hard Grass. A Journalist’s Memories of Exile and Apartheid, 2014, 978-3-905758-54-2

Hans Schinz, Bruchstücke. Forschungsreisen in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, 2012, 978-3-905758-48-1

Dag Henrichsen, Naomi Jacobson, Karen Marshall, Israel Goldblatt. Building Bridges. Namibian Nationalists Clemens Kapuuo, Hosea Kutako, Brendan Simbwaye, Samuel Witbooi, 2010, 978-3-905758-45-0

Toyin Falola, Decolonizing African History, 2024, 978-3-906927-51-0

Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Decolonising the Academy. A Case for Convivial Scholarship, 2020, 978-3-906927-26-8

Mirjan de Bruijn, Digitalization and the Field of African Studies, 2019, 978-3-905758-99-3

Nelson Kasfir, Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa. Conceptual and Political Collisions, 2018, 978-3-905758-96-2

Ellen Ndeshi Namhila, Native Estates. Records of Mobility across Colonial Boundaries, 2017, 978-3-905758-91-7

Abdou Maliq Simone, Always Something Else. Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment, 2016, 978-3-905758-86-3

Julia Augart, Madeleine Brook, Stefanie Hundehege, Nelson Mlambo, Narrating Africa – Narrating Namibia. A Multifaceted Approach, 2025, 978-3-906927-73-2

Anette Hoffmann, Listening to Colonial History. Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa, 2023, 978-3-906927-40-4

Sarala Krishnamurthy, Nelson Mlambo, Helen Vale, Writing Namibia. Coming of Age, 2022, 978-3-905758-42-8

Julia Rensing, Lorena Rizzo, Wanda Rutishauser, Sites of Contestation. Encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Damman Collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2021, 978-3-905758-32-9

Astrid Starck, Dag Henrichsen, Lewis Nkosi. The Black Psychiatrist | Flying Home. Fiction, Critical Perspectives and Homage, 2021, 978-3-905758-95-5

Christopher Hope, Developmentalism, Dependency, and the State. Industrial Development and Economic Change in Namibia Since 1900, 2020, 978-3-906927-22-0

Tycho van der Hoog, Breweries, Politics and Identity. The History Behind Namibia's Beer, 2019, 978-3-906927-13-8

Maano Ramutsindela, Giorgio Miescher, Melanie Boehi, The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa, 2016, 978-3-905758-87-0

Veit Arlt, Stephanie Bishop, Pascal Schmid, Explorations in African History. Reading Patrick Harries, 2015, 978-3-905758-70-2

Marion Wallace, Geschichte Namibias. Von den Anfängen bis 1990, 2015, 978-3-905758-68-9

Hans-Joachim Vergau, Negotiating the Freedom of Namibia. The diplomatic achievement of the Western Contact Group, 2010, 978-3-906927-80-0

Corinne Lüthy, Reto Ulrich, Antonio Uribe, Kaboom! Of Stereotypes and Superheroes - African Comics and Comics on Africa, 2020, 978-3-905758-47-4

Erika Sutter, Seen with Other Eyes. Memories of a Swiss Eye Doctor in Rural South Africa, 2013, 978-3-905758-47-4

Ellen Ndeshi Namhila, Little Research Value. African Estate Records and Colonial Gaps in a Post-Colonial National Archive, 2017, 978-3-905758-93-1

Maria Mboono Nghidinwa, Women Journalists in Namibia’s Liberation Struggle 1985–1990, 2008, 978-3-905758-57-3

Dag Henrichsen, Herrschaft und Alltag im vorkolonialen Namibia, 2011, 978-3-906927-65-7

Bonus books in the same series that are already OA

These 7 titles are already OA so they are not part of the membership subscription package - there are no charges or barriers for anyone to access them. We've listed them here as a bonus and for completeness because they are part of the same series.

Ellison Tjirera, Writing Windhoek. Multiple Representations of the City, 2025, 978-3-906927-63-3

Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo, Defending the Investment. Rössing Uranium and the Business of Decolonisation in Namibia, 2024, 978-3-906927-71-8

E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor, Anne Beutter, African History between Ghana and Switzerland. Essays Honoring Paul Jenkins, 2024, 978-3-906927-65-7

Hilde Roos, Féroll-Jon Davids, Chris Walton, “Sorry. I am what I am.” The Life and Letters of the South African Pianist and Opera Coach Gordon Jephtas, 2023, 978-3-906927-59-6

Chris Walton, Stephanus Muller, Cultural Relations. Between Switzerland and Apartheid South Africa, 2025, 978-3-906927-75-6

Luregn Lenggenhager, Giorgio Miescher, Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo, Raffaele Perniola, Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland, 2025, 978-3-906927-67-1

Henning Melber, Dieter Hinrichs, A Symbol of a People’s Determination. The Windhoek Old Location. History and Photographs, 2025, 978-3-906927-69-5

Access to titles will be provided at the start of the next calendar year or you can choose to start it immediately. Access to the 58 titles becomes automatically perpetual at the end of the 3-year period.