{"id":993658,"date":"2026-07-13T13:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/meeting-with-eljakim-baby-doeseb-in-windhoek\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:42:26","slug":"meeting-with-eljakim-baby-doeseb-in-windhoek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/meeting-with-eljakim-baby-doeseb-in-windhoek\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with Eljakim \u201cBaby\u201d Doeseb in Windhoek"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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During a private trip to Namibia in June 2026, Antonia Fendt and Jan Knipping got in touch with the Namibian musician, composer, author, archivist, and music researcher Eljakim \u201cBaby\u201d Doeseb. Baby Doeseb, who has served as lead guitarist for Namibia\u2019s oldest active band (\u201cThe Ugly Creatures\u201d) since the 1970s, is already connected to Hauke Dorsch and the AMA through previous projects. As part of a fellowship funded by the Ernst Wilhelm M\u00fcller Foundation in 2025, he participated as a guest in a KOSTIMA workshop and is one of the co-founders of the project \u201cStolen Moments: Namibian Music History Untold,\u201d the results of which were showcased in a traveling exhibition curated by him in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Namibia. While in Windhoek, he therefore took the opportunity to personally guide the two KOSTIMA staff members through the exhibition\u2014which is now accessible only by appointment\u2014as well as through the archives of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), where he himself had worked for many years. He further enriched these tours with numerous fascinating anecdotes from his long and eventful career. In addition, in-depth discussions were held regarding a Namibian exhibit as a contribution to the planned exhibition of the KOSTIMA project at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, which is currently in the works.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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During a private trip to Namibia in June 2026, Antonia Fendt and Jan Knipping got in touch with the Namibian musician, composer, author, archivist, and music researcher Eljakim \u201cBaby\u201d Doeseb. Baby Doeseb, who has served as lead guitarist for Namibia\u2019s oldest active band (\u201cThe Ugly Creatures\u201d) since the 1970s, is already connected to Hauke Dorsch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":993617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[126,127,125],"class_list":["post-993658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities-en","tag-baby-doeseb","tag-censorship","tag-namibia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993658"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993669,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993658\/revisions\/993669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}