National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa - A Historical Ethnography of Swapo''s Exile Camps

Informationen zum Autor Christian A. Williams is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State. Klappentext Williams traces the South West Africa People's Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola. Zusammenfassung This book traces the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) across its three decades in exile through rich! local histories of the camps where Namibian exiles lived in Tanzania! Zambia! and Angola and highlights how different Namibians experienced these sites! as well as the tensions that developed within. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Camp, Nation, History: 1. Liberation movement camps and the past of the present in Southern Africa; 2. Revisiting an image of a camp: remember Cassinga?; Part II. Camps and the Formation of a Nation: 3. Living in exile: life and crisis at SWAPO's Kongwa Camp, 1964-8; 4. Ordering the nation: SWAPO in Zambia, 1974-6; 5. 'The spy' and the camp: SWAPO in Angola, 1980-9; Part III. Camps and the Production of History: 6. Namibia's 'Wall of Silence': challenging national history in the international system; 7. Reconciliation in Namibia? Narrating the past in a post-camp nation; 8. The camp and the post-colony.

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• Authors: Christian A. Williams, Christian A. (University of the Western Williams
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107492028
• ISBN: 978-1-107-49202-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: African Studies; African Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Namibia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, HISTORY / Africa / South / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural anthropology, African History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), National liberation and independence