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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.
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
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…
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 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 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 Role of Traditional Authorities in Natural Resource Management in Communal Areas
Relevance to Namibian Community Conservation
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 Relation of Nama and Dama Women to Hunting
Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika. Volume 7, no. 1 (1986): 329-349.
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 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 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 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 political economy of Namibia : an annotated, critical bibliography
This highly acclaimed bibliography contains more than 2,100 entries, of which over 1,000 are annotated, including books, articles, unpublished reports, conference papers, official publications and periodicals in English, German, Afrikaans and the…
The Ovambo Reserve Otjeru (1911-1938): The Story of an African Community in Central Namibia
"In the following pages I try to reconstruct the history of the settlement at Otjeru and of its inhabitants. My writing draws from oral information received by people whose family histories are deeply connected with the place, but is mainly based on…
The Otjimbingwe Volunteer Artillery, 1864
Courtesy of Africana Museum, Johannesburg
The need and use of community library services in Namibia
M.A. Thesis - "The overall aim of this study is to investigate the use of community libraries in Namibia. The study aims at finding solid data on the actual use of community libraries, who needs them and what do they need them for. Main questions…
The Namibian Independence Process (Film)
Short Documentary film produced for TV News Program "South Africa Now" in conjunction with The Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Phase II Productions, Global Vision International, Stuart Sender (Dir. & Prod.) and Caroline Craven.…
The Nama of Namibia: A Guide to an Exhibition
"The long over-due representation of the Nama in Namibian museums formed the primary motivation to develop this exhibition as part of a larger exhibition titled "Hunter-gatherers & Nomads in Sand and Ice Deserts", which was made available on loan to…