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The Position of SWANU and the Namibia National Front on Negotiations between the Five Western Powers and South Africa on Namibia
SWANU's Position at the 1976 UN Session -Contacts between Ambassadors of The Five Western Powers and the NNF -The SWANU Utrecht Meeting
The Preservation of the Audio Heritage of Namibia. Challenges and Opportunities
"Namibia has a rich intangible cultural heritage. There is an urgent need to record more of it, but there is also a wealth of already recorded oral heritage and music that is in danger of being irretrievably lost if the opportunities of preserving it…
The Price of Freedom
"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…
The radical motherhood : Namibian women's independence struggle
The study analyses why and how the Ovambo women in northern Namibia participated in the struggle which led to the independent Namibia. The study also examines the changes in women's lives caused by the arrival of Christianity, colonialism, the cash…
The Relation of Nama and Dama Women to Hunting
Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika. Volume 7, no. 1 (1986): 329-349.
THE RHENISH MISSION AND THE COLONIAL WAR IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA
"Mission operations often found themselves in an ambiguous situation during a war of colonial conquest. On the one hand, the missionaries wanted to protect the people among whom they were working and keep the door open for the preaching of the…
The Role of Traditional Authorities in Natural Resource Management in Communal Areas
Relevance to Namibian Community Conservation
The security-development nexus : expressions of Sovereignty and securitization in Southern Africa
The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the…
The Tourism-Development Nexus in Namibia : A Study on National Tourism Policy and Local Tourism Enterprises' Policy Knowledge
PhD Dissertation - "The tourism development nexus in southern Africa involves highly topical issues related to tourism planning, power relations, community participation, and natural resources. Namibia offers a particularly interesting context for…
The Voice of SWAPO-D (No. 3)
The Interim Government (Conversion of Constituent Assembly into National Assembly) [Kenneth Abrahams] -Inter-Party Talks and the Internal Situation -The UN Plan for Namibia -The Detention of SWAPO Leaders -The President in Pretoria
The Witbooi
"Shortly after the ecstatic victory celebration in Windhoek came the first bad news. Hendrik Witbooi had by no means fled precipitately with his warriors, but had gathered them together, and secretly followed the withdrawing Germans. He succeeded in…
Three Essays on Namibian History
Essays: Jakob Morengo and Namibian History - Responses to German Rule in Namibia: The Enigma of the Khowesin - The Namibian War of Anti-Colonial Resistance, 1904-1907
Three Views into the Past of Namibia
Originally Compiled by Annemarie Heywood and Brigitte Lau as a contribution to the History Conference 1-3 June 1993 sponsored by the Namibisch-Deutsche Stiftung fur kulturelle Zusammenarbeit, published privately.
To heal the wounds : Namibian Ovaherero's contests over coming to terms with the German colonial past
Doctoral Dissertation: Anthropology - This dissertation describes why events of 100 years ago, during the German colonial period, remain so salient for many Ovaherero today as well as what it means to them to come to terms with that past. A national…
Trade and Socioeconomic Change in Ovamboland, 1850-1906
"Ovamboland, located in northern Namibia, was the most important battlefield in the Namibians, long struggle for independence. Althought nearly half of the country\'s population lives in Ovamboland, the history of the Ovambo communities has been a…
Trader Latham's house and trading store at Walvis Bay, May 1861
Courtesy of National Archives of SWA/Namibia
Trader Runcie's House at Anawood near Otjimbingwe, c. 1861
Courtesy of National Archives of SWA/Namibia
Traditional Establishment: With Relation to Local and Regional Authorities
relevance for Namibia
Transition in Southern Africa : comparative aspects
The 1990s completed a process of transition in Namibia and South Africa that brought formal decolonisation in Africa to an end. These two contributions review some aspects of the transformation and complement each other. They take stock of the…
Transitions in Namibia : which changes for whom?
This volume completes the research project on "Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa" (LiDeSA). It mainly addresses socioeconomic and gender-related issues in contemporary Namibia. Most of the contributors are either Namibian, based in Namibia…