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Dissertations on Namibia
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This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded.
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Enduring Suffering - The Cassinga Massacre of Namibian Exiles in 1978 and the Conflicts Between Survivors' Memories and Testimonies
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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, nationwide, in remembrance of those killed and disappeared following the Cassinga attack. During each Cassinga anniversary, survivors are modelled into „living testimonies‟ of the Cassinga massacre. Customarily, at every occasion marking this event, a survivor is delegated to unpack, on behalf of other survivors, „memories of Cassinga‟ so that the inexperienced audience understands what happened on that day. Besides survivors‟ testimonies, edited video footage showing, among others, wrecks in the camp, wounded victims laying in hospital beds, an open mass grave with dead bodies, SADF paratroopers purportedly marching in Cassinga is also screened for the audience to witness the agony of that day. Interestingly, the way such presentations are constructed draw challenging questions. For example, how can the visual and oral presentations of the Cassinga violence epitomize actual memories of the Cassinga massacre? How is it possible that such presentations can generate a sense of remembrance against forgetfulness of those who did not experience that traumatic event? When I interviewed a number of survivors (2007 - 2010), they saw no analogy between testimony (visual or oral) and memory. They argued that memory unlike testimony is personal (solid, inexplicable and indescribable). Memory is a “true picture” of experiencing the Cassinga massacre and enduring pain and suffering over the years. In considering survivors‟ challenge to the visually and orally obscured realities of the Cassinga massacre, this study will use a more lateral and alternative approach. This is a method of attempting to interrogate, among other issues of this study, the understanding of Cassinga beyond the inexperienced economies of this event production. The study also explores the different agencies, mainly political, that fuel and exacerbate the victims‟ unending pathos. These invasive miseries are anchored, according to survivors, in the “disrupted expectations” or forsaken human dignity of survivors and families of the missing victims, especially following Namibia‟s independence in 1990."
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Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha
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University of the Western Cape
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PDF
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2011
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English
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http://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11394/1711/Shigwedha_PHD_2011.pdf?sequence=1
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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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/ff17e42ba6a35f93c2bd25ee3c1df25d.pdf
251652f972d139f2f70c6aa550b54085
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Out of Print Books on Namibia
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This collection contains full-text PDFs of various out of print books re: Namibian Studies. Most of these were published by small-name presses (such as the Finnish Anthropological Association), and for that reason they are hard to find.
Some of the out of print books can be found in other collections in this repository (such as the Basler Afrika Bibliographien); this collection is merely for those without their own. Efforts were made to receive copyright permission before uploading. For any questions or concerns, contact the webmaster.
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Kenya Batallion in Namibia
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Kenya Battalion in Namibia is a debut book of note by a retired Kenya Army officer. The book is ground-breaking because in the highly secretive military service in Kenya, rarely do we hear army officers tell about their exploits in the service. It is an entertaining account that gives us a slice of how life was for the Kenyan Army officers in Namibia between 1989 and 1990. As it does so, it explains the forces at work during the period preceding Namibian freedom in 1990. The analytical narrative is by a disciplined soldier who does not want to be rude to his motherland. It showers glowing praise on such valiant soldiers as Brigadier Daniel Opande and Lieutenant-Colonel Kithinji. But, like all texts, Kenyan Battalion in Namibia can be politically fascinating when read against the grain. Its praise for foreign land is in a way criticism of mother land. Its political statements about Kenya can be found in the fascination it has for Namibia. Kenyan towns are dirty, the text says without saying, as he praises the cleanliness of Namibian town, which a Kenyan "could not help noting" because of "the gaping difference" between foreign towns and Kenyan ones. "Namibian towns were so clean that a person could easily pick an orange from the pavement and eat it without a second thought about germs," the writer says. The potholes in Nairobi are also a subject directly addressed by hyperbolic praise of Namibia. "Roads too were a sight to behold," the amazed writer notes. "They were spacious, accommodating and had no potholes." In describing the language problem the Kenya Army encountered in Namibia with respect to Afrikaans, the text is suggesting that the officers should be trained in different and foreign languages. The book is humorous, and although it is factual, it is imaginatively conceived and written. The ceremonies Kenyans performed to enhance their identity are described in detail. These include the Madaraka Day celebration that were attended by Kenyan traditional dances and pomp. The operation was not a bed of roses. The writer remembers an accident in July 1989 when Kenya lost two officers. The media reports in which a Kenyan officer was said to expend his urges of the groin on a Namibian woman are revisited, and a detailed clarification given. The suspect was said to have a big hole in the ear lobe, and this was associated with the Kenyan cultures which pierce their ear lobes. The text intervenes on the Kenyan officers who had become the butt of Namibian press regarding an above-average appetite for other people's spouses. Kenyan soldiers were also open to attack by sections of Namibians. The text gives the case of a Lieutenant-Colonel Kamau who was stabbed several times in an attack. "Hostility from sections of Namibians (who thought the Kenyan Battalion was partisan) was endemic," the book says. "Accusations and other intimidating mechanisms were the order of the day. For Kenyans, danger was lurking in the veld, in houses and along lonely streets." Spine-chilling tales the brutality of Boar soldiers are retailed with favour when on one occasion a white soldier is killed in combat. Boers, it was said, would hunt down black people, torture them to death in a most bizarre way before giving animals a treat. "Properly cooked, a man's fresh flesh is delicious food for Boer's pigs," a white man is quoted as having remarked. The book explains the reason why our soldiers had to fly to Namibia. The Kenya army was not called to Namibian aid because Namibia did not have enough forces, it says. There was bad blood between the Apartheid South African-trained forces of the colonial government, and the guerilla freedom fighters. Both were military competent, but ideologically incompatible, the book says. Kenya which had "many of the necessary credentials" was called in to help foresee a smooth transition where the two groups would work together in defence of their newly-independent country. The book is angry with political elite who use the army to achieve their selfish ends. In a politically bold statement, the author bashes political leaders who forget other departments to please the army so that, in turn, it can prop them into power. "Generally the forces are maintained as a watchdog to prop unpopular regimes which would otherwise be voted out of office by a most dissatisfied electorate," Mwarania says. "Inevitably the masters of such armies have resulted to playing on the tribal factors in their quest for dominance." The author does not say whether these problems exist in Kenya, but he pulls no punches in criticising "African" political establishment. "Conventionally, most of Africa's defence forces fit as tribal home guards or at best as political party brown shirts employed to secure the interests of their masters," says Mwarania. "They cannot defend the very nation that feeds and sustains them." It is the book's secret anger that makes it an allegory of our system. One wishes Mwarania could write a novel which would allow him more freedom to deploy stylistic strategies with which he would fight the national enemies of Kenya. He has the potential, a fact not lost on University of Nairobi's Prof. Chris Wanjala in a foreword to the 153-page book. "Ben Mwarania is a writer to note," says Prof. Wanjala, Kenya's most authoritative and strictest literary critic who will not praise you for nothing. "It will not be surprising if one day he writes a novel." There are a few editorial lapses, but the text is fairly well edited."
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Ben Mwarania
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Media Document Supplies
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PDF
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1999
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English
Ben Mwarania
Kenya
liberation struggle
Military
United Nations
UNTAG
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Thomas Baines (1820-1875)
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These prints were made of ten paintings painted by Thomas Baines (1820-1875), during his travels in central Namibia during 1861 and 1863/4. They were reprinted by the National Archives of Namibia (then SWA) in 1988
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The Otjimbingwe Volunteer Artillery, 1864
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Courtesy of Africana Museum, Johannesburg
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Thomas Baines
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Namibia in the 1860s: As Seen and Painted by Thomas Baines
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National Archives of SWA/Namibia
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Bernard C. Moore
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© Africana Museum Johannesburg
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JPG Image
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Print of Painting
Army
Great Britain
Military
Otjimbingwe
Thomas Baines
United Kingdom
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/df56282e126fee31616ef4d23e403984.pdf
aa4ef2f05d3aefa9676c226af289d71f
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Miscellaneous Documents, Pamphlets, Briefings & Promotional Material Concerning Namibia
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Hakika - A Bulletin of Political News and Comment on Southern Africa
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Issue No. 6 - January 1977 -Anticipation of DTA Election Efforts -Dirk Mudge, Clemens Kapuuo, Henry Kissinger -Covert Military Operations in Namibia (Transkei Mercenaries) -Detentions by SWAPO in Exile
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Southern African Liberation Centre (Sydney)
Southern African Liberation Centre (Sydney)
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PDF
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1977
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English
Australia
Clemens Kapuuo
Detainees
Dirk Mudge
Hakika
Henry Kissinger
Military
SWAPO
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/425928afd435c667418391c97671b267.pdf
cc9e42b7364cfa37994c53154af4d0d8
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Southern Africa Dossier (Maputo)
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Southern Africa Dossier - June 1990
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An account of the resource
-Documented Incidents of SADF Action in Mozambique (Part 8)
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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1990
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PDF
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English
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Newsletter
Maputo
Military
Mozambique
SADF
Southern Africa
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/b6b4448584f5da5d9e193b391fed2ec0.pdf
16a776dd2d10d034329af1fda89767c2
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Southern Africa Dossier (Maputo)
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Southern Africa Dossier - January 1990
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An account of the resource
-Documented Incidents of SADF Action in Mozambique (part 6)
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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1990
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PDF
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English
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Newsletter
Maputo
Military
Mozambique
SADF
Southern Africa
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/3d855d376d9758f9f6031a6305644283.pdf
dbeb25795e17c1f8add8cf472b397b5c
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Southern Africa Dossier (Maputo)
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Southern Africa Dossier - October 1989 (Part 3)
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An account of the resource
-Documented Incidents of SADF Action in Mozambique
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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1989
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PDF
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English
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Newsletter
Maputo
Military
Mozambique
SADF
Southern Africa
-
https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/0a3ed3a08fee164d3cfd809a69096fb8.pdf
8668c539929ebb96c42b611f6cbaa03c
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Southern Africa Dossier (Maputo)
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Southern Africa Dossier - July 1989
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An account of the resource
-Documented Incidents of SADF action in Mozambique (article missing the last few pages)
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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1989
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PDF
Language
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English
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Newsletter
Maputo
Military
Mozambique
SADF
Southern Africa
-
https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/c3cec21543c59541106fd015a28eab2c.pdf
89006071b5a9b00359302a1480a5a68e
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Southern Africa Dossier (Maputo)
Text
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Southern Africa Dossier - December 1988
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An account of the resource
-Documented Incidents of SADF Action in Mozambique
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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1988
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PDF
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English
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Newsletter
Maputo
Military
Mozambique
SADF
Southern Africa
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https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/01b67f607d73b8b116307d5fededc9fa.pdf
3cc2216fd7098b4e06577433884f6ba7
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Southern Africa Dossier (Maputo)
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Southern Africa Dossier - November 1988
Description
An account of the resource
-Documented Incidents of SADF Action in Mozambique
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) - Centro de Estudos Africanos
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1988
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PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Newsletter
Maputo
Military
Mozambique
SADF
Southern Africa