Author: Wolfgang ZellerPublisher:
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Category : Caprivi (Namibia)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Interests and Socio-economic Development in the Caprivi Region from a Historical Perspective
Author: Wolfgang ZellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caprivi (Namibia)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Contesting Caprivi
Author: Bennett KangumuPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 3905758466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Caprivi, the remote and narrow Namibian strip of land encapsulated by neighbouring Angola, Zambia and Botswana, has a contested colonial and postcolonial history. Bennett Kangumu traces the politics of its people in this complex borderlands since the late 19th century. Neglected by German and South African colonial administrations, its inhabitants were often pushed towards neighbouring territories though not being an integral part of them. At the same time, South African apartheid and homeland politics emphasised the ethnization of local identities. Becoming a strategic location in the ensuing liberation wars of the late 20th century, its history is often one of conquest and resistance, plunder, betrayal and rivalry. Kangumu shows how the inhabitants of Caprivi responded in various ways, notably in the form of regional nationalism when the Caprivi African National Union (CANU) was formed in the early 1960s. The Unions merger with the dominant Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO, was a claim to end seperation and isolation, which, however, flarred up again in post-colonial Namibia.
Understanding Namibia
Author: Henning MelberPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190257628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elections. The anti-colonial liberation movement, SWAPO, dominates the political scene, effectively making Namibia a de facto one-party state dominated by the first 'struggle generation'. While those in power declare their support for a free, fair, and just society, the limits to liberation are such that emancipation from foreign rule has only been partially achieved. Despite its natural resources Namibia is among the world's most unequal societies and indicators of wellbeing have not markedly improved for many among the former colonized majority, despite a constitution enshrining human rights, social equality, and individual liberty. This book analyses the transformation of Namibian society since Independence. Melber explores the achievements and failures and contrasts the narrative of a post-colonial patriotic history with the socio-economic and political realities of the nation-building project. He also investigates whether, notwithstanding the relative stability prevailing to date, the negotiation of controlled change during Namibia's decolonization could have achieved more than simply a change of those in control.
State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: L. BuurPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230609716
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade.
Atlas of cultural and environmental change in arid Africa
Author: Olaf BubenzerPublisher: Heinrich-Barth-Institut
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Economic Perspectives in Southern Africa
Author: Dirk HansohmPublisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
South African journal of African languages
Author: Economic Aspects of NEPAD in Namibia
Author: Dirk Hansohm"Namibianisation", Exports and Domestic Value in the Namibian Fishing Industry
Author: Mareike MeynPublisher:
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Category : European Union countries
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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