Mukwahepo

Author : Ndeshi Namhila
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9991642218
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mukwahepo written by Ndeshi Namhila and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fianc across the border into Angola. They survived hunger and war and eventually made their way to Tanzania. There, Mukwahepo became the first woman to undergo military training with SWAPO. For nine years she was the only woman in SWAPOs Kongwa camp. She was then thrust into a more traditional womens role taking care of children in the SWAPO camps in Zambia and Angola. At Independence, Mukwahepo returned to Namibia with five children. One by one their parents came to reclaim them, until she was left alone. Already in her fifties, and with little education, Mukwahepo could not get employment. She survived on handouts until the Government introduced a pension and other benefits for veterans. Through a series of interviews, Ellen Ndeshi Namhila recorded and translated Mukwahepos remarkable story. This book preserves the oral history of not only the dominant male voice among the colonised people of Namibia, but brings to light the hidden voice, the untold and forgotten story of an ordinary woman and the outstanding role she played during the struggle.

Author : Elene Cloete
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793607400
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women and Their Networks of Support written by Elene Cloete and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Women and their Networks of Support: Intervening Connections is an interdisciplinary analysis of how African women, in their different cultural, social, and political spaces, find innovative strategies to address the challenge they face and voice their often-underrepresented perspectives. These actions are often molded in either formal or informal networks of support that provide women with the necessary peer-based foundation to deal with gender discrimination, violence, and subjugation. On other occasions, women’s strategies toward change are driven by specific individuals who set the transformative agenda and trajectory toward social change. Contributors label these efforts as intervening connections, representing women's intentional actions to circumvent, disrupt, question, and ultimately rearrange structures of gender discrimination. Respective chapters capture networks that are historic and current; real, virtual, and imagined; local and transnational, and managed by women on the continent as well as in the diaspora. Considering these diverse spaces in which networking happens, contributors underscore not only how African women aim at deconstructing current systemic gender inequalities, but also how they are developing futures of gender equity and equality.

Author : Christian A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110709934X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Liberation in Post-Colonial Southern Africa written by Christian A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williams traces the South West Africa People's Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.

Author : I. Amathila
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9991642021
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making a Difference written by I. Amathila and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failure is not in my vocabulary says Libertina Inaaviposa Amathila medical doctor, leading member of Namibias liberation movement SWAPO, and Cabinet Minister for 20 years. Insightful, candid and amusing, this book traces Libertina Amathilas journey from a village in western Namibia travelling alone to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1962; medical training in Poland, Sweden and London; and the health and education centres in Zambia and Angola that she helped develop and run for Namibians in exile; to a victorious return home in 1989; service in the Cabinet of independent Namibia; and a leading role in the World Health Organisation. Courageous, committed, cutting through difficulties that deterred others, Libertina Amathila has assisted and empowered Namibian communities, particularly women, in exile and at home. As Minister of Regional and Local Government and Housing, Minister of Health and Social Services, and Deputy Prime Minister, she focused on those in need, such as squatters, street children, and those affected by HIV/AIDS, and undertook immediate practical measures to improve their lives. Packing her tent and supplies, she drove to remote areas and camped out until houses and clinics were built for marginalized communities, assisting in the design and construction process herself. An indomitable spirit drives this remarkable woman. This is her story.

Author : Jocelyn Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000750906
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements written by Jocelyn Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africa’s wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research. Assuming neither the primacy of nationalist loyalties as they exist today nor any single path to liberation, the book unpicks any notion of a straightforward imposition of Cold War ideologies or strategic interests on liberation wars. This approach adds new dimensions to the rich literatures on the Global Cold War and on solidarity movements. The contributors trace the ways that ideas and practices were made, adopted, and circulated through time and space through a focus on African soldiers, politicians and diplomats. The book also asks what motivated the men and women who crossed borders to join liberation movements, how Cold War influences were acted upon, interpreted and used, and why certain moments, venues and relations took on exaggerated importance. The connections among liberation movements, between them and their hosts, and across an extraordinarily diverse set of external actors reveal surprising exchanges and lasting legacies that have too often been obscured by the assertion of monolithic national histories. Tracing an extraordinarily diverse set of interactions and exchanges, Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements will be of great interest to scholars of Southern Africa, Transnational History, the Cold War and African Politics. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies.

Author : Tichaona Mazarire
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 3906927342
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Economic Reintegration in Namibia: written by Tichaona Mazarire and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws from life histories to present constraints and possibilities that have shaped former SWAPO exiles economic reintegration in post-colonial Namibia from 1989 through 2018. The book advances three arguments, each of which pushes beyond existing scholarship on Namibia and/or economic reintegration broadly. Collectively, these arguments challenge dominant narratives that have generalized former SWAPO exiles economic reintegration experiences, highlighting that there is no single narrative that can describe their unique life stories of reintegration in the post-colony.

Author : Lazlo Passemiers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351138146
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics written by Lazlo Passemiers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the ‘Congo crisis’ (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa’s decolonisation. This book provides a transnational history of African decolonisation, apartheid diplomacy, and Southern African nationalist movements. It answers three central questions. First, what was the nature of South African involvement in the Congo crisis? Second, what was the rationale for this involvement? Third, how did South Africans perceive the crisis? Innovatively, the book shifts the focus on the Congo crisis away from Cold War intervention and centres it around African decolonisation and regional geopolitics.

Author : Janet Kataaha Museveni
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9970250736
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life's Journey written by Janet Kataaha Museveni and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet Kataaha Museveni is the First Lady of Uganda since May 1986. She is married to Yoweri Museveni, with whom she has four children. She is the current Minister for Karamoja Affairs in Uganda's Cabinet She was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011. She is also the elected Member of Parliament representing Ruhaama County, Ntungamo District. Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha Museveni here writes her story from her birth in Ntungamo to her work with youth in addressing the issue of HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Author : Colin Baker
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9990876339
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chipembere written by Colin Baker and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive biography of one of Malawi's most important historical figures aims to provide coverage of the missing events in the subject's own autobiography: the 1959 state of emergency, his years in detention and prison, his periods of ministerial office, including as a cabinet minister, the 1964 revolt against Banda, his attempted coup d'état in 1965, and his subsequent flights and exile in Tanganyika and the US.

Author : Harry Langworthy
Publisher : Kachere Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Africa for the African" written by Harry Langworthy and published by Kachere Series. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an unusual missionary. Joseph Booth published a book in 1897 demanding independence for Malawi and played a key role in inspiring an anti-colonial rising eighteen years later. This book tells of his activities in Malawi, South Africa and Lesotho and of his efforts to find support for his cause in Australia, Britain and the USA.