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  • Collection: Out of Print Books on Namibia

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/9c6efea98f7b65a640ca9065da1a85e7.pdf
Contents: pt. 1. Cape Coloured people pt. 2. Coloured people in Namibia, 1921 until 2001, 80 years pt. 3. Basters, 1865 until 2001.

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/2524d790288585ee92b37bf0bda04f81.pdf
"I spent five months in Namibia, from March to August 1989. Four of these were spent living just outside the village of Okombahe in Damaraland, the "homeland" of the Damara population group, in western central Namibia. In this village, there is…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/081b113ae4df658340812e120a1cdcb0.pdf
Documents resistance to the German conquest by the Herero and Nama peoples; the South African take-over under the League of Nations mandate; land, labour and community resistance from 1920-1960; the emergence of Nationalist organisations; appeals to…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/195872889992d365065e42e110ef2ba2.pdf
"This dissertations reflects my attempts to understand the practice of 'common sense' or the logic of practice in people's day-to-day lives in the harsh, impoverished environment of the Damaras...."

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/58092afa2eca2bf7719a1f0211d5183f.pdf
"The struggle for Namibian independence is not one that has generated widespread attention or support from the people of the Western industrialised countries. Much of this apathy is due, no doubt, to the failure of Western media corporations to…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/9ecde8fb56b809e77dee52df45fe3abf.pdf
Conducted under the auspices of the Michael Scott Oral Research Project, Katutura residents conduct interviews and archival research into the Shooting in the Old Location of 10 December 1959, a crucial moment that helped birth the liberation…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/6ae44d8d1334daebaf5103f7f427463f.pdf
"The portrait of a revolutionary legend is a story of Andimba Herman Toivo ya Toivo. Ya Toivo started to organize fellow migrant workers from the then South West Africa who were working in Cape Town, in order to form a political organization to…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/076a479917a15d2323c0e537425033ed.pdf
This bulletin, reproduced from a facsimile reprint of the 1926 original, outlines the policies by which land settlement in the 1920s would take place. Descriptions of farming options, climate conditions, veld conditions, and pricing and size are…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/917a5e067a500a830a4713d25d4e4815.pdf
"Bush encroachment is defined as “the invasion and/or thickening of aggressive undesired woody species resulting in an imbalance of the grass:bush ratio, a decrease in biodiversity, and a decrease in carrying capacity”, causing severe economic losses…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/9f7a45b71086fec6363fc8a6ddf3ab61.pdf
"The Beginning of the 1980s witnessed the start of a crisis which rocked SWAPO due to the myopic and selfish interest of certain members in its leadership. The Real power of PLAN passed over into the hands of Solomon Jesus Hawala, the 'Butcher of…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/f95835d95569f1419f69639adca578f0.pdf
"The fascinating story of Cape Cross over the past 500 years. Interesting events and colourful characters on every page. Read about the first railway and first postal robbery in Namibia. The biology of the Cape fur seals in detail, plus three maps…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/17c46cd0e4cc72a81db71c0b9e56e8c6.pdf
"An Illustrated History of Namibia's Tropical Region where Four Countries Meet" ISBN: 0620257520

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/14ef0abb47ca77e19d5c3cb240dd1642.pdf
"This book is about the space of a colony and how it was produced.It began as a study of the literature of the German colony of South West Africabetween the years 1884 and 1915. It was my aim to demonstrate the active role whichliterature had played…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/117b2769734b0c8a8383fdca7211de25.pdf
Beschreibung:Hendrik Witbooi und Theodor Leutwein - das sind die zentralen Figuren auf Seiten der Nama und der Deutschen im Zeitraum 1884-1904. Sie kämpften gegeneinander und sie kämpften miteinander. Und sie hatten gegenseitigen Respekt voreinander.…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/3f0a6a27d72af526178d33871179095f.pdf
"Farming has thus forcefully shaped human history over the past 11,000 years. But what of Namibia, where agriculture has only been practiced during the last thousand years or so? How has farming changed, and what sections of Namibian society are…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/8db99adf4360688173badafb866d49c4.pdf
Scanty evidence has been the major obstacle for studying historical demography in Sub Saharan Africa. Our most certain knowledge of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century populations development is based on a retrospective view of the…
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