The experiences of women during war and liberation struggles have increasingly been a topic of scholarly focus. This dissertation enhances the scope of such scholarship by showing how women in the Namibian liberation struggle furthered the movement in vital ways as combatants, c…
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This is a study of institutional variation, differentiation, and evolution in natural resources management in two post-conflict African states. A historical analysis of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Ethiopia and Namibia, the dissertation examines how and…
The growth in multinational corporations looking to expand and invest in foreign countries, particularly in the emerging markets such as Africa, has grown tremendously. "Africa is already the world's second fastest growing economy after expanding 5% a year in the past two years,…
South African artist William Kentridge's (b. 1955) work frequently employs optical tools, such as the stereoscope, to highlight the contingency and instability of witness. These visual tools become metaphors for the process of historicization in post-apartheid South Africa. Kent…
Access to water and sanitation is indeed a human right; however quality water and sanitation service provision should not be assumed a ‘free service’ as a result. Hence it is crucial to understand the costs involved of monopoly water service provision to enable informed decision…
Because its geographic reach was not as vast as Britain, France, or Spain's, Imperial Germany is often rendered to the marginalia of colonial historiography. Yet Germany’s colonial endeavors, specifically its genocidal war against the Ovaherero and Nama (1904-1908) in German Sou…
나미비아는 기독교 국가이다. 인구의 약 80%가 기독교에 속한 국가이며, 1990년 독립한 신생국가이다. 비록 긴 역사를 가지지 못한 나라이지만, 이미 많은 지역에 교회가 존재를 하였고 많은 사람이 하나님, 예수님, 성령님을 알고 있다. 하지만 나미비아는 이렇게 겉으로 보이는 모습 속에 다른 모습을 가지고 있었다. 과연 얼마나 많은 사람이 주일에 교회에서 예배를 드리고 있는가? 얼마나 많은 성도가 성경을 가까이하는가? 라는 질문에 물음표를 던지고 있는 나라이기도 하다. 국가전체는 기독교 나라라고…
Between 1919 and 1962, the South African government implemented ever more restrictive segregationist and apartheid policies in South West Africa that attempted to control and monitor the social, political, and economic development of Namibians living in South West Africa’s Polic…
Most of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa achieved their independence after protracted liberation struggles. What explains the variances in their ultimate political development? Why, for example, did some post-conflict states evolve into democracies, while many others failed t…