Namibia

Literature on Gender

Allison, Caroline

1989
“It’s like holding the key to your own jail” – Women in Namibia, Publications of the World Council of Churches, Geneva.(S.10-41)

Becker, Heike

2003
Junge Frauen im Exil, Ellen Ndeshi Namhila, eine Autobiographie, in: Periplus, 12. Jahrgang, S.60-74.
2001
„We want women to be given an equal chance“, Post independence rural politics in Northern Namibia, in: Meredeth, Sheila / Pillay, Anu / Turshen, Meredeth (eds.): The aftermath, Women in post-conflict transformation, Zed Books, London, S.225-242.
2006
‘New things after independence’, Gender and traditional authorities in post-colonial Namibia, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, S.29-48.

Cleaver, Tessa / Wallace, Marion

1990
Women and war, Zed Books, London.

Cooper, Allan

1997
State sponsorship of women’s rights and implications for patriarchism in Namibia, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, S.469-483.

Hervé, Florence (Hg.)

1993
Namibia, Frauen mischen sich ein, Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin. (S.56-84).

Hubbard, Dianne / Solomon, Colette

1995
Many faces of feminism in Namibia, in: Basu, Amita (ed.): Women’s movement in a global perspective, Westview Press, Boulder, S.163-186.

Johnson, Chris

1992
Women on the frontline, Voices from Southern Africa, MacMillan Publishers, Basinstroke, Houndsmills.

Krüger, Gesine

1996
„The men should marry“, Koloniale Herrschaft, Geschlechterkonflikte und gesellschaftliche Rekonstruktion im Waterberg Reservat, Namibia, in: Werkstatt Geschichte, vol. 14, 5. Jg, S.22-36.
2003
Bestien und Opfer, Frauen im Kolonialkrieg, in: Zimmerer, Jürgen / Zeller, Joachim (Hrsg.): Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, S.142-159.

Lapchick, Richard / Urdang, Stephanie (eds.)

1982
Oppression and resistance, The struggle of women in Southern Africa, Westport.

McFadden, Patricia

1988
Forms and spheres of anti-colonial resistance with special reference to Namibian women, in: Wood, Brian (ed.): Namibia 1884-1984: Readings on Namibia’s history and society, selected papers, London, S.622-626.

Preston, Rosemary

1997
Integrating fighters after war: Reflections on the Namibian experience, 1989-1993, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 23, 3, S.453-461.

Olsson, Louise

2001
Gender mainstreaming in practice, The United Nations Transitional Assistance Group in Namibia, in: Olsson, Louise / Tryggestad, Torunn, (eds.): Women and international peacekeeping, Frank Cass Publishers, London, S.97-110.
2005
The Namibian peace operation in a gender context, in: Mazurana, Dyan E. / Raven-Roberts, Angela / Parpart, Jane L. (eds.): Gender, Conflict and Peacekeeping, Rowman and Littlefield Lanham, S.168-182.

Shikola, Teckla

1998
We left our shoes behind, in: Turshen, Meredeth / Twagiramariya, Clothilde (Hg.): What women do in wartime, Gender and conflict in Africa, Zed Books, London, New York, S.138-149.

Soiri, Iina

1996
The radical motherhood, Namibian women’s independence struggle, Uppsala.

Solomon, Hussain / Schoeman, Maxi (eds.)

1998
Security, development and gender in Africa, ISS Monograph Series, no. 27, Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria.

Stiehm, Judith Hicks

2001
Women, pecebuilding and peacemaking, Gender balance and mainstreaming, in: Olsson, Louise / Tryggestad, Toruun (eds.): Women and international peacekeeping, Frank Cass Publishers, London, S.39-48.

Belletristik zum Thema

Hiyalwa, Kaleni

2000
Meekulu’s Children, New Namibia Books, Windhoek.

Background Information

Aitken, Robbie

2007
Exclusion and inclusion, Gradations of whiteness and socio-economic engineering in German South-West Africa, 1884-1914, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a.M.

Allison, Caroline

1988
‘It’s like holding the key to your own jail’, Women in Namibia, Publications of the World Council of Churches, Geneva.

Balch, Jeffrey / Scholten, Jan Nico

1990
Namibia reconstruction and reconciliation, Putting the horse before the cart, in: Review of African Political Economy, vol. 49, S.82-93.

Batchelor, Peter / Kingma, Kees (eds.)

2004
Demilitarization and peace-building in Southern Africa, vol. I, Concepts and processes, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.

Bauer, Gretchen

1998
Labour and democracy in Namibia, 1971-1996, Ohio University Press, Athens.
1999
Challenges to democratic consolidation in Namibia, in: Joseph, Richard (ed.): State, conflict and democracy in Africa, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, S.S.429-442.
2004
‘The hand that stirs the pot can also run the country’, Electing women to parliament in Namibia, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, S.479-509.

Becker, Heike

1992
Zwischen Parteipolitik und Autonomie, Erfahrungen der namibischen Frauenbewegung, in: Peripherie, Nr. 47/48, S.49-73.
1995
Namibian women’s movement 1980-1992, Form anti-colonial resistance to reconciliation, IKO-Verlag, Frankfurt.
1997
Voreheliche Sexualität und traditionelles Recht in Nordnamibia, in: Peripherie, Nr. 65/66, S.157-187.
2000
Becoming men, Masculine identities among young men in two Namibian locations, in: Development Update, vol. 3, no. 2, S.15-21.
2001
‘We want women to be given an equal chance’, Post independence rural politics in Northern Namibia, in: Meredeth, Sheila / Pillay, Anu / Turshen, Meredeth (eds.): The aftermath, Women in post-conflict transformation, Zed Books, London, S.225-242.
2003a
Junge Frauen im Exil, Ellen Ndeshi Namhila, eine Autobiographie, in: Periplus, 12. Jahrgang, S.60-74.
2003b
The least sexist society? Perspectives on gender, change and violence among Southern African San, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, S.5-23.
2004
Efundula, Women’s initiation, gender and sexual politics in colonial and post-colonial Namibia, in: Arnfred, Signe (ed.): Re-thinking sexualities in Africa, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, S.35-58.
2005
‘Let me come to tell you’, Loide Shikongo, the king and poetic license in colonial Ovamboland, in: History and Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 2, S.235-258.
2006
‘New things after independence’, Gender and traditional authorities in post-colonial Namibia, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, S.29-48.

Biesele, Megan

1993
Women like to eat meat, The folklore and foraging ideology of the Kalahari Ju/’hoan, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
1994
Human rights and democratization in Namibia, Some grassroot political perspectives, in: African Rural and Urban Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, S.49-72.

Boden, Gertrud

2003
‚Caught in the middle’, Impacts of state decision and armed conflicts on Khwe economy and ethnicity in West Caprivi between 1998 and 2002, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln, S.161-204.

Bollig, Michael

1997
Söldnerführer, Chiefs und Indigenous Rights Aktivisten – Intermediäre der Macht im Nordwesten Namibias, in: Peripherie, Nr. 67, S.67-84.

Böhlke, Itzen, Janntje

2004
Kolonialschuld und Entschädigung, Der deutsche Völkermord an den Herero 1904-1907, Brandes und Apsel, Bonn.

Brown, Susan

1995
Diplomacy by other means, SWAPO`s liberation war, in: Leys, Colin / Saul, John (eds.): Namibia’s liberation struggle, James Currey, London/Oxford, S.19-39.

Bühler, Andreas Heinrich

2003
Der Namaaufstand gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft in Namibia von 1904-1913, IKO-Verlag, Frankfurt a.M.

Cleaver, Tessa / Wallace, Marion

1990
Namibia: Women in war, Zed Books, London.

Cliffe, Lionel et al.

1994
The transition to independence in Namibia, Lynne Rienner, Boulder.

Cooper, Allan

1997
State sponsorship of women’s rights and implications for patriarchism in Namibia, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, S.469-483.

Crandall, David

1996
Female over male or left over right: Solving a classificatory puzzle among the OvaHimba, in: Africa, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 327-348.

Daniels, Clement

2003
Himba und San, Rechte indigener Bevölkerungsgruppen, in: Melber, Henning (ed.): Namibia, Grenzen nachkolonialer Emanzipation, Brandes und Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., S.65-93.

Debiel, Tobias

2003
UN-Friedensoptionen in Afrika, Weltinnenpolitik und die Realität von Bürgerkriegen, Dietz Verlag Nachfolger, Bonn.

Devereux, Stephen

1996
Fuzzy entitlements and common property resources, Struggles over rights to land in Namibia, Institute of Development Studies, Working Paper no. 44, University of Sussex, Brighton.

Dobell, Lauren

1997
Silence in context, Truth and / or reconciliation in Namibia, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 23, no, 2. S.371-382.
1998
SWAPO’s struggle for Namibia, 1960-1991, War by other means, Schlettwein Publishing, Basel.

Du Pissani, André

1989
Beyond the transgariep, South Africa and Namibia 1915-1989, in: Politikon, vol. 16, no. 1, S.26-43.

Durham, Deborah

2002
Uncertain citizens, Herero and the new intercalary subject in post-colonial Botswana, in: Werbner, Richard (ed.): Postcolonial subjectivity in Africa, Zed Books, London, S.139-170.

DWA - Department of Women’s Affairs

1994
Namibia National Report to the 4th World Conference on Women, DWA Publications, Windhoek.

Dzinesa, Gwinyayi Albert

2004
A comparative perspective of UN peacekeeping in Angola and Namibia, in: Journal of Peace Research, vol. 11, no. 4, S. 644 – 663.

Edwards, Lucy

2007
HIV/AIDS in Namibia, Gender, class and feminist theory revisited, in: Melber, Henning (ed.): Transitions in Namibia, Which changes for whom? Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, S.230-244.

Emmett, Tony

1999
Popular resistance and the roots of nationalism in Namibia, Basel Namibia African Studies Series, 4, P. Schlettwein Publishing, Basel.

Förster, Larissa / Henrichsen, Dag / Bollig, Michael (Hrsg.)

2004
Namibia – Deutschland, Eine geteilte Geschichte, Widerstand, Gewalt, Erinnerung, Edition Minerva/Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum für Völkerkunde, Wolfratshausen/Köln.

Frayne, Bruce

2005
Rural poverty and urban survival in Namibia, Eating away from home, in: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol 23, no. 1, S.51-76.

Gawanas, Bienas

1993
Legal rights of Namibian women and affirmative action: The eradication of gender inequalities, in: Review of African Political Economy, No. 56, S.116-123.

Gewald, Jan-Bart

1999
Herero heroes, A socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923, James Currey, Oxford.
2001
‚We thought we could be free ...’, Socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia, 1915-1940, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln.
2003a
Kolonisierung, Völkermord und Wiederkehr, Die Herero von Namibia 1890-1923, in: Zimmerer, Jürgen / Zeller, Joachim (Hrsg.): Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, S.105-120.
2003b
Herero genocide in the twentieth century, Politics and memory, in: Abbink, Jon / de Bruijn, Mirjam / van Walraven, Klaas (eds.): Rethinking resistance, Revolt and violence in African history, Brill Publishers, Leiden, S.279-304.
2008
Coming through slaughter, The Herero Of Namibia, 1904–1940, in: Rao, Aparna / Bollig, Michael / Böck, Monika (eds.): The production of war, Production, reproduction and communication of armed violence, Berghahn Publishers, Oxford (forthcoming)

Gewald, Jan-Bart / Melber, Henning

2005
Genozid, Herero-Identität(en) und die Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht, in: Melber, Henning (Hrsg.): Genozid und Gedenken, Namibisch-deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart, Brandes und Apsel, Frankfurt a.M., S.79-102.

Griffith, Robert

1996
Democratization and civil-military relations in Namibia, South African and Mozambique, in: Third World Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, S.473-485.

Groth, Siegfried

1996
Namibische Passion, Tragik und Größe der namibischen Befreiungsbewegung, Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal.

Hailonga, Panduleni

2005
Adolescent sexuality and reproductive behaviour in Namibia, Shaker Verlag, Berlin.

Hansohm, Dirk / Schade, Klaus / Nepembe, Maano

2002
Taxation, expenditures and accountability, Lessons from Namibia, in: IDS Bulletin, vol. 33, no. 3, S.58-66.

Hayes, Patricia

1996
‘Cocky’ Hahn and the ‘Black Venus’: The making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-1946, in: Gender and History, vol. 8, no. 3, S.364-392.
1998
The ‘famine of the dams’: Gender, labour and politics in colonial Ovamboland, 1929-1930, in: Hayes, Patricia et al. (eds.): Namibia under South African rule: Mobility and containment 1915-1946, James Currey, Oxford, S.117-146.

Herbstein, Denis / Evenson, John

1989
The devils are among us, The war for Namibia, Zed Books, London.

Hervé, Florence

1993
„Wir können vergeben, aber nicht vergessen“, Frauen im Krieg, in: Hervé, Florence (Hg.): Namibia, Frauen mischen sich ein, Orlanda Frauenbuchverlag, Berlin, S.56-63.

Hendrickson, Hildi

1994
The ‘long dress’ and the construction of Herero identities in Southern Africa, in: African Studies, vol. 53, no. 2, S.25-54.
1996
Bodies and flags, The representation of Herero identity in colonial Namibia, in: Hendickson, Hildi (ed.): Clothing and difference, Embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa, Duke University Press, Durham, 1996, S.213-244.

Hishongwa, Ndeutala

1992
The contract labour system and its effects on family and social life in Namibia, Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers, Windhoek.

Hinz, Manfred / Gevers, Nadia

1989
Koevoet versus the people of Namibia, in: Entwicklungspolitik, Nr. 4, S.39-57.

Hubbard, Diana

2007
Ideas about equality in Namibian family law, in: Melber, Henning (ed.): Transitions in Namibia, Which changes for whom? Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, S.209-229.

Hubbard, Dianne / Solomon, Colette

1995
Many faces of feminism in Namibia, in: Basu, Amita (ed.): Women’s movement in a global perspective, Westview Press, Boulder, S.163-186.

Hughes, Anthony / Harland, David (eds.)

1989
Children on the frontline, The impact of apartheid, destabilization and warfare on children in South and Southern Africa, UNICEF Publication, New York.

Iken, Adelheid

1999
Women headed households in Southern Namibia: Causes, patterns and consequences, IKO-Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Frankfurt a.M.

Iipinge, Eunice / Le Beau, Debie

1997
Beyond inequalities, Women in Namibia, SARDC/UNAM Publication, Windhoek.

Iipinge, Scholastika / Hofnie, Kathe / Friedman, Steve

2004
The relationships between gender roles and HIV infections in Namibia, University of Namibia Press, Windhoek.

Jewkes, Rachel / Penn-Kekana, L. / Rose-Junius, H.

2005
‘If they rape me, I can't blame them’: Reflections on gender in the social context of child rape in South Africa and Namibia, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 1809-1820.

Johnson, Chris

1992
Women on the frontline, Voices from Southern Africa, MacMillan Publishers, Basinstroke, Houndsmills.

Kaela, Laurent

1996
The question of Namibia, St. Martin’s Press, New York.

Kahn, Owen Ellison / Valenta, Jiri (eds.)

1991
Disengagement from Southwest Africa, The prospects for peace in Angola and Namibia, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick.

Kandirikirira, Niki

2002
Deconstructing domination, Gender disempowerment and the legacy of colonialism and apartheid in Omaheke, Namibia, in: Cleaver, Frances (ed.): Masculinities matter! Men, gender and development, Zed Books, London, S.112-137.

Kathindi, Nangula

1991
Women’s struggle in the church, A Namibian voice, in: Ackermann, Denise / Draper, Jonathan / Mashinini, Emma (eds.): Holding up half of the sky: Women in the church in Southern Africa, Pietermaritzburg, Cluster Publishers, S.254-266.

Katjavivi, Peter

1990
A history of resistance in Namibia, Africa World Press, Trenton.

Kössler, Reinhart

2000
From reserves to homeland, Local identities and South African policy in Southern Namibia, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, S.447-462.
2001
The Berseba captaincy after 1938, Collective identity and conflict in a traditional community in southern Namibia? in: Afrika Spectrum, 36. Jg., S.347-362.
2003a
‚A luta continua’, Strategische Orientierung und Erinnerungspolitik am Beispiel des „Herero Days“ der Witbooi in Gibeon, in: Zimmerer, Jürgen / Zeller, Joachim (Hrsg.): Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, S.180-191.
2003b
Erinnerungspolitik zwischen Versöhnung und Kriegsfolgen, in: Melber, Henning (Hg.): Namibia, Grenzen nachkolonialer Emanzipation, Brandes und Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., S.139-157.
2004a
A chief’s homecoming. Public memory and its communal organization. A case study from Berseba, Southern Namibia, in: Sociologus 54, 2, S.145-172.
2004b
Ein unüberbrückbarer Graben: Kommunale Führer und Rheinische Missionare im Süden Namibias? in: Bogner, Artur / Tyrell, Hartmann (Hrsg.): Weltmission und religiöse Organisationen, Protestantische Missionsgesellschaften im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Ergon Verlag, Würzburg, S.689-718.
2005
Im Schatten des Genozids, Erinnerungspolitik in einer extrem ungleichen Gesellschaft, in: Melber, Henning (Hrsg.): Genozid und Gedenken, Namibisch-deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart, Brandes und Apsel, Frankfurt a.M., S.49-77.
2005
Kolonialherrschaft - auch eine deutsche Vergangenheit, in: Lutz, Helma / Kathrin Gawarecki, Kathrin (Hrsg.): Kolonialismus und Erinnerungskultur. Die Kolonialvergangenheit im kollektiven Gedächtnis der deutschen und niederländischen Einwanderungsgesellschaft, Waxmann Verlag, Münster, S.23-40.
2006
In search for survival and dignity, Two traditional communities in Southern Namibia under South African rule, IKO-Verlag, Frankfurt a.M.
2007
Facing a fragmented past, Memory, culture and politics in Namibia, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, S.361-382.
2008a
Offene Wunden, Die Familie Trotha beim Herero-Gedenktag 2007 in Namibia, in: IZ3W, Nr. 208, S.42-43.
2008b
Kein Ruhmesblatt, Zum Stand des namibisch-deutschen Versöhnungsprozesses, in: Afrika Süd, Nr. 6, S.12-14.

Kößler, Reinhart / Melber, Henning

2004
Völkermord und Gedenken, Der Genozid an den Herero und Nama in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1904-1908, in: Fritz Bauer Institut (Hg.): Völkermord und Kriegsverbrechen in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., S. 37-75.

Krüger, Gesine

1996
„The men should marry“, Koloniale Herrschaft, Geschlechterkonflikte und gesellschaftliche Rekonstruktion im Waterberg Reservat, Namibia, in: Werkstatt Geschichte, vol. 14, 5. Jg, S.22-36.
1999
Kriegsbewältigung und Geschichtsbewusstsein, Realität, Deutung und Verbreitung des deutschen Kolonialkriegs in Namibia 1904-1907, Vandenhoek und Ruprecht, Göttingen.
2003
Bestien und Opfer, Frauen im Kolonialkrieg, in: Zimmerer, Jürgen / Zeller, Joachim (Hrsg.): Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, S.142-159.

Lamb, Guy

2000
Reflections on demilitarization, A Southern African perspective, in: International Peacekeeping, vol. 7, no. 3, S.120-136.
2001
Putting belligerents in context, The case of Namibia and Angola, in: Chesterman, Simon (ed.): Civilians in war, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, S.25-42.
2007
Militarising policies and development, The case of post-independence Namibia, in: Buur, Lars / Jensen, Steffen / Stepputat, Finn (eds.): The security development nexus, Expressions of sovereignty and securitization in Southern Africa, Publications of the Nordic Africa Institute / HSRC Press, Uppsala / Cape Town, S.152-173.

Lapchick, Richard / Urdang, Stephanie (eds.)

1982
Oppression and resistance, The struggle of women in Southern Africa, Westport.

Legal Assistance Centre

2006
Rape in Namibia, An assessment of the operation of the Combating of Rape Act 8 of 2000, Gender Research and Advocacy Project, Legal Assistance Centre, Windhoek.

Leys, Colin / Brown, Susan (eds.)

2005
Histories of Namibia, Living through the liberation struggle, Merlin Press, London.
Leys, Colin / Saul, John
1994
Liberation without democracy? The SWAPO crisis in 1976, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, S.123-147.
2003
Lubango and after, Forgotten history as politics in contemporary Namibia, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, 29, 2.

Leys, Colin / Saul, John (eds.)

1995
Namibia’s liberation struggle, The two-edged sword, James Currey, London/Oxford.

Lindsay, Jenny

1991
The politics of population control in Namibia, in: Meredeth, Trushen (ed.): Women and health in Africa, Africa World Press, Trenton, S.143-168.

Marcus, Rachel / Baden, Sally

1992
Gender and development in Namibia: A country study, IDS Report No. 6, Brighton.

Mamozai, Martha

1982
Schwarze Frau, weiße Herrin, Frauenleben in den deutschen Kolonien, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg.

McConnell, Tristan

2000
Personal narratives of political history, Social memory and silence in Namibia, in: Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 25, S.25-59.

McKittrick, Meredith

1996
The ‘burden’ of young men: Property and generational conflict in Namibia, 1880-1945, in: African Economic History, 24, S.115-129.
1998
Generational struggle and social mobility in Western Ovambo communities, 1915-1954, in: Patricia Hayes et al. (eds.), Namibia under South African rule. Mobility and containment, 1915-1946, James Currey, Oxford, S. 241-262.
1999
Faithful daughter, murdering mother: Transgression and social control in colonial Namibia, in: Journal of African History, vol. 40, S.265-283.

Melber, Henning

1991
Der UNO-Lösungsplan für Namibia: Sicherheitsratresolution 435 (1978), in: Gatter, Th. / Hinz, Manfred O. (Hrsg.): Krisen - Entwicklungen – Konfliktlösungen, Sektionsbericht III. Vereinigung von Afrikanisten in Deutschland e.V., Jahrestagung 1989, IKO Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, S.165-180.
1992a
Kontinuität totaler Herrschaft: Völkermord und Apartheid in “Deutsch-Südwestafrika”,Zur kolonialen Herrschaftspraxis im Deutschen Kaiserreich, in: Wolfgang Benz (Hg.): Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung, vol. 1, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, S.91-116.
1992b
Namibia, Der lange Kampf um die Unabhängigkeit, in: Hofmeier, Rolf / Matthies, Volker (Hrsg.): Vergessene Kriege in Afrika, Lamuv Verlag, Göttingen, S.25-60.
1993a
Namibia: The case of a post-colonial white settler society, in: Southern Africa Political and Economic Monthly, vol. 6, no.7, S.25-28.
1993b
Lehrerausbildung in Namibia - Probleme einer Neuorientierung nach der Unabhängigkeit, in: Nord- Süd aktuell, vol. 7, no. 2, S.279-283.
1997
Vom Geben und Nehmen, Entwicklungshilfe in Namibia, in: Afrika Süd, Nr. 5, S.30-32.
2000
Musterbeispiel oder Normalfall. Ein Jahrzehnt nachkolonialer politischer Herrschaft in Namibia, in: Vereinte Nationen, vol. 48, no. 5, S.168-172.
2001
Befreiung und Demokratie im Süden Afrikas, der Fall Namibia, in: Afrika Süd, Nr. 3, S.14-17.
2002
Befreiung von der Zukunft, Nachkoloniale Heldenverehrung in Namibia, in: Der Überblick, Nr. 4, S.91-93.
2003a
From controlled change to change control, The case of Namibia, in: Melber, Henning (eds.): Limits to liberation in Southern Africa, The unfinished business of democratic consolidation, Publications of the Human Science Research Council, Cape Town, S.134-155.
2003b
‘Namibia, land of the brave’, Selective memories on war and violence within nation building, in: Abbink, Jon / De Bruijn, Mirjam / van Walraven, Klaas (eds.): Rethinking resistance, Revolt and violence in African history, Brill Publishers, Leiden, S.305-327.
2003c
'Wir haben überhaupt nicht über Reparationen gesprochen', Die namibisch-deutschen Beziehungen: Verdrängung oder Versöhnung? in: Jürgen Zimmerer, Jürgen / Zeller, Joachim (Hrsg.): Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, S.215-225.
2004a
Wer gedenkt wem (nicht)? Zum Umgang mit der Vergangenheit im heutigen Namibia, in: Der Überblick, 1, S.87-93.
2004b
Decolonization and democratisation: The United Nations and Namibia’s transition to democracy, in: Newman, Edward / Rich, Roland (eds): The UN role in promoting democracy: Between ideals and reality, United Nations University Press, Tokyo/New York/Paris, S.233-257.
2005a
Land and politics in Namibia, in: Review of African Political Economy, no. 103, S.135-204.
2005b
Namibia’s post-colonial socio-economic (non)transformation, Business as usual? in: Nord-Süd-Aktuell, 3-4, S.306-321.
2005c
People, party, politics and parliament, Government and governance in Namibia, in: Salih, Mohamed (ed.): African parliaments between governance and government, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, S.142-161.
2005d
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2007a
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2007
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2007
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2004
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2004
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2000
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1999
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2001
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2001
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2005
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2001
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1985
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1994
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1997
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1996
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2007
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2004
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2007
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2002
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2004
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1998
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2003
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1997
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1996
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1998
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2000
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1995
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1995
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2001
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1993
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1994
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2003
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1993
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2004
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2001
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2003
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1988
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2007
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1998
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2002
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2004
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1994
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1995
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2004
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1990
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1996
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2001
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2005
Multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence, Namibia, WHO/Geneva.

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2003
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2002
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2003a
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2003
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2003
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Themenrelevante Belletristik

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2005
Speaking out, Namibians share their perspectives on independence, Out of Africa Publishers, Windhoek.

Hiyalwa, Kaleni

2000
Meekulu’s children, New Namibia Books, Windhoek.

Namhila, Ellen Ndeshi

1997
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2005
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1990
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