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Southern Africa Dossier - April 1990
-Notes on Namibia's Transition to Independence (Gottfriend Wellmer)
Southern Africa Dossier - June 1990
-Documented Incidents of SADF Action in Mozambique (Part 8)
Swakopmund: A Chronicle of the Town's People, Places and Progress
English version of "Swakopmund: Eine Kronik" of 1982. Translated by Swakopmund Rotary Club
Hai||kom zwischen «Buschmannplage» und San Aktivismus: Koloniale Repräsentationen und postkoloniale Aneignung von Ethnizität im Namibia des 20. Jahrhunderts
Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich zum einen mit der Konstruktion, Rekonstruktion und Festschreibung von ethnischen Kategorien während der Kolonialzeit in Namibia, also mit einer spezifischen Ethnisierung, und zum anderen mit der Bedeutung und…
Namibia's Black Gold? Charcoal Production, Practices and Implications
The charcoal industry is a fairly new industry in Namibia, being an innovative by-product of clearing invader bush. The industry grew significantly in the 2001–2010 period, and has now become an important economic sector. Its development as a…
“Scraping the Pot:” San in Namibia Two Decades After Independence
This study on the San of Namibia has again brought to light the need for a more broad-based approach involving all stakeholders, through participatory democracy, a legal framework for the recognition and enforcement of the rights of indigenous and…
Human Rights in Human Development Co-operation - a Review on Whether the Icelandic International Development Agency Improves Human Rights in Namibia
B.A. Thesis (Law) - Human Development Co-operation (HDC-op) has been a part of the international community for a few decades but not everyone agrees on what HDC-op is supposed to achieve. A group of people believes that HDC-op should aim at promoting…
Fertility, Mortality, and Migration in Subsaharan Africa: The Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia, 1925-90
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…
Enduring Suffering - The Cassinga Massacre of Namibian Exiles in 1978 and the Conflicts Between Survivors' Memories and Testimonies
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,…
Katutura: A Place Where We Stay: Life in a Post-Apartheid Township in Namibia
Katutura, located in Namibia’s major urban center and capital, Windhoek, was a township created by apartheid, and administered in the past by the most rigid machinery of the apartheid era. Namibia became a sovereign state in 1990, and Katutura…
Seasonal Trends of Rainfall and Surface Temperature over Southern Africa
This study investigated seasonal trends of surface temperature and rainfall from 1979 to 2007 in southern Africa. In recent years, annual rainfall has decreased over the African continent from the equator to 20ºS, as well as in Madagascar. On the…
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…
Frühe Kolonialgeschichte Namibias 1880-1930
Contents: 1. Einführung - Wilhem J.G. Möhlig 2 - Unmaking a Market: The Encapsulation of a Regional Trade Network: Northwest Namibia between the 1860s and 1950s. - Michael Bollig 3. Mit Kreuz, Gewehr und Handelskarre: Der Kavango 1903 im kolonialen…
A Place We Want to Call Our Own: A Study on Land Tenure Policy and Securing Housing Rights in Namibia
At independence, apartheid policy was abolished and the new Constitution introduced the right of all Namibians to reside and settle in any part of the country. This provoked a dramatic increase of informal settlement in Windhoek, mostly around…
Elite land grabbing in Namibian communal areas and its impact on subsistence farmers’ livelihoods
Large scale land acquisitions by foreign investors in Africa for agricultural purposes continue to capture attention worldwide. In recent years Namibia has received some proposals from multi-national agricultural corporations to develop large scale…
A Legal overview of Namibia's Mining Industry
Dissertation (LLM) - Namibia has since gaining its independence managed to build a strong mining industry and a solid regulatory framework to govern it. Many foreign investors have looked to Namibia’s mining industry to invest in this growing sector…
An economic and social history of the Herero of Namibia, 1915-1946
PhD Dissertation (University of Cape Town)
Livelihoods after Land Reform: Namibia Country Report (pt. 1)
In 1990, Namibia emerged from colonial rule with a skewed distribution of agricultural land and high levels of poverty. The new government led by SWAPO Party initiated a process to address the land question within the first few months of…
Livelihoods after Land Reform: Namibia Country Report (pt. 2)
In 1990, Namibia emerged from colonial rule with a skewed distribution of agricultural land and high levels of poverty. The new government led by SWAPO Party initiated a process to address the land question within the first few months of…
What Makes Borders Real : In the Namibia-Zambia and Uganda-South Sudan Borderlands
PhD Dissertation - "Some argue that the territorial boundaries of African countries, having largely survived the transition to independence, are now like a poorly tailored suit: It does not fit in many places but African leaders have by and large…