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The Price of Freedom

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/a42793aea91b7394fcfc4587ea9aa7b3.pdf

"It was an early Sunday morning in April 1976, my heart was heavy, but in my head I could hear sounds of of early morning birds wishing me a safe journey. I was determined to leave Namibia. I silently slipped out of the homestead, walked across the…

Tags: Autobiography, Camps, Cassinga, Ellen Ndeshi Namhila, Exile, Finland, Gender, Independence, liberation struggle, Libraries, memoir, refugees, SWAPO, Tampere, Werner Hillebrecht, Women

Enduring Suffering - The Cassinga Massacre of Namibian Exiles in 1978 and the Conflicts Between Survivors' Memories and Testimonies

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/4277a7b525118437c11c265ef58e4b7a.pdf

PhD Dissertation - "During the peak of apartheid, the South African Defence Force (SADF) killed close to a thousand Namibian exiles at Cassinga in southern Angola. This happened on May 4 1978. In recent years, Namibia commemorates this day,…

Tags: Angola, Camera, Cassinga, Cuba, Film, liberation struggle, Memory, Military, Oral History, Photography, South Africa, University of the Western Cape, Vilho Shigwedha, Violence

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