My family did the unthinkable: after getting away with 'playing white' for some years, we went on...

An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, i...

The role played by Botswana in various southern African liberation struggles has previously been ...

South Africa is an example of a relatively successful political transition. Nevertheless, the fir...

Voices from the Kavango explores the contribution that the life histories and the voices of the c...

Windhoek in the early 1960s: the 34-year-old politician Clemens Kapuuo knocks at the door of the ...

An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytown...

In many instances, the colonial state has left a strong imprint on the postcolonial archive. In t...

This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South Afr...

Urbanization in Africa also means rapid technological change. At the turn of the 21st century, mo...

Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she ...

This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of...

Recurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa and elsewhere, to imbibe ...

This book deals with colonialism on a Namibian periphery and considers both the German colonial p...

'Caprivi, the remote and narrow Namibian strip of land encapsulated by neighbouring Angola, Zambi...

Namibian beer is celebrated as an inextricable part of Namibian nationalism, both within domestic...

It took the former South African Defence Force (SADF) less than four hours to kill more than eigh...

This book encompasses a history of identity-building amongst Khwe San people, and of contestation...

This collection of essays documents the growth of African history as a discipline at the Universi...

This book is a long-overdue history of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and the rise o...

Namibia's main liberation movement, the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), relied h...

The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in E...

How does a peoples' music reflect their history, their occupations, cultural beliefs and values? ...

This study investigates the experiences of women journalists during the last phase of Namibia's l...

Why does Namibia's economy look the way it does today? Was the reliance on raw materials for expo...

Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peac...

This book describes the Nyae Nyae Village Schools, an innovative and unique mother-tongue educati...

'National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia' addresses the challenges of creating a 'national' cu...

Women's contributions against apartheid under the auspices of the Namibian liberation movement SW...

Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled succ...

Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, So...

The Etosha Region in Namibia, comprising the famous Etosha National Park and its adjacent communa...

A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 193...

'Much has happened to me that is worth narrating, worth celebrating, in spite of the regrets and ...

A rich collection of captivating and remarkable chapters, Writing Namibia Coming of Age presents ...

Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia enters into unchartered scholarly territory of illegal diamo...

The title of this book originates from the self-description of Namibian Evangelists in their own ...

This study draws from life histories to present constraints and possibilities that have shaped fo...

Gordon Jephtas (1943-92) was born into an impoverished, coloured, single-parent family in South A...

Most research on the migrant labour system in Namibia under South African colonial rule emphasise...

Worldwide, Namibia ranks high regarding gender equality. However, many women are intimidated by v...

Nature conservation is often framed as an ecological problem in need of repair. With both materia...

In 1954, the Haillom people were evicted from Etosha by the South African-con-trolled South West ...

This collection of essays documents the formative decades of African history across two countries...

In the 1970s, Rio Tinto Zinc's Rössing Uranium mine became a symbol of injustice for Namibian nat...

The project 'Narrating Africa' began with an international symposium at the Deutsches Literaturar...

European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists, ethnologists ...

Decolonizing African history involves efforts toward ending European intellectual hegemony over A...