Author: Gerhard TötemeyerPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Namibia in Perspective
Author: Gerhard TötemeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Namibia
Author: United Nations Institute for NamibiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Namibia
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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The Dynamics of English in Namibia
Author: Anne SchröderPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027259674
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and the present volume brings together most scholars actively involved in the research on English in Namibia from various linguistic fields to present their current research. It covers a wide range of linguistic issues, such as empirical analyses on various levels of linguistic description and use, as well as the application of diverse methodologies, from questionnaire surveys, sociolinguistic interviews and focus group discussions, to corpus linguistics, linguistic landscaping, and digital ethnography. This book represents the first comprehensive collection of articles and in-depth discussions of this emerging variety of World Englishes.
A Namibian Perspective of the Future of Education in Namibia
Author: Ngondi Alfonso Kamat̳ukaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A Namibian perspective of the future of education in Namibia : an analysis of current thought from north America
Author: Ngondi Alfonso KamatukaPerspective
Author: Understanding Namibia
Author: Henning MelberPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019024156X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
he book offers a frank account of an African state that shook off colonial rule but has yet to see the fruits of independence distributed evenly among its people. Drawing on inside knowledge of SWAPO, the anti-colonial liberation movement, the author provides a valuable case study of nation building in the modern era.
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
Author: John T. FriedmanPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857450913
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.
History of Namibia
Author: Marion WallacePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019751393X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule--and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of Namibia in two decades, provides a fresh synthesis of these events, and of the much longer pre-colonial period. A History of Namibia opens with a chapter by John Kinahan covering the evidence of human activity in Namibia from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and for the first time making a synthesis of current archaeological research widely available to non-specialists. In subsequent chapters, Marion Wallace weaves together the most up-to-date academic research (in English and German) on Namibian history, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. She explores histories of migration, production and power in the pre-colonial period, the changes triggered by European expansion, and the dynamics of the period of formal colonialism. The coverage of German rule includes a full chapter on the genocide of 1904-8. Here, Wallace outlines the history and historiography of the wars fought in central and southern Namibia, and the subsequent mass imprisonment of defeated Africans in concentration camps. The final two chapters analyse the period of African nationalism, apartheid and war between 1946 and 1990. The book's conclusion looks briefly at the development of Namibia in the two decades since independence. A History of Namibia provides an invaluable introduction and reference source to the past of a country that is often neglected, despite its significance in the history of the region and, indeed, for that of European colonialism and international relations. It makes accessible the latest research on the country, illuminates current controversies, puts forward new insights, and suggests future directions for research. The book's extensive bibliography adds to its usefulness for scholar and general reader alike.
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