Filmmaker Richard Pakleppa talks about 'Paths to Freedom'

Neville Alexander's books available online

Education and the Struggle for National Liberation in South Africa
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35930902/Education%20and%20the%20Struggle.pdf 

Language Policy and National Unity in South Africa/Azania
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35930902/Language%20Policy%20and%20National%20Unity.pdf 

Three essays on Namibian history
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35930902/Namibian%20History.pdf 

50 Years After Frantz Fanon: Namibian Youth Still Without Shoes

by Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari, The Namibian

ABOUT three weeks ago, I attended a video projec- tion and discussion around the disturbing oeuvre of the extremely talented Congolese artist, Freddy Tsimba.

While Tsimba is brilliant, passionate about his sculptures, the Congo and his city Kinshasa, he remains a marginal artist, not only because he uses spent bullet casings in his sculptures to express despair and hope, but because he refuses to surrender his artistic independence to the state. About his beloved Kinshasa, he says: ‘Kinshasa est une très belle femme, mais elle est sans chaussures’ (Kinshasa is a very beautiful woman, but without shoes). Having grown up in dusty Katutura and spending long vacations in Otjimati, Epukiro (Omaheke), I understand what it means to feel grown-up, but still be deprived of shoes. It could imply both the physical and symbolic dehumanisation in front of peers and others with shoes.

Born Free & in Search of Political Answers

by Ndapwa Alweendo, The Namibian, 24 November 2009

THE hype leading up to this year’s presidential and National Assembly elections has been particularly fascinating to me. As a first-generation ‘born-free’, I am one of many young Namibians voting for the very first time. And I think it’s this fact that makes our approach to the polling stations so unique.

From what I can tell, many older Namibians vote out of loyalty, and not because they think their party will do the best at running the country. Their approach to the elections seems completely backwards. We should vote looking forward, instead of remembering past glories.

African Leaders Hide Political Woes Behind Homophobia

In late March, Sam Nujoma, President of Namibia, ordered apurge of homosexuals, stating that “The Republic of Namibia does not allow homosexuality or lesbianism here. Police are ordered to arrest you, deport you and imprison you.” The Namibian Society for Human Rights countered that the “attempt to turn a personal dislike into ad hoc national policy is entirely unconstitutional and misguided.”

The Black Radical Congress joins those who have strongly condemned the Namibian president’s assault on same gender loving people in his Southern African nation. Namibia, a former German colony that was administered as a mandate and later annexed by South Africa, gained its independence in 1990 after a more than 20-year long anti-apartheid war. Given that he is a former freedom fighter and a head of state, Nujoma’s homophobic, discriminatory actions are particularly repugnant. His actions and rhetoric come on the heels of similar rhetoric and repression in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has campaigned to imprison and expel same gender loving people.

Liberation Movements as Governments in Southern Africa: On the limits to liberation

by Henning Melber, 2010

Click here to download this paper which develops a strong critique of national liberation movements in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Namibia: Endemic Violence in Postcolonial Nation

by Shaun R. Whittaker, The Nigerian Daily

Frantz Fanon participated actively in the anti-colonial struggles in northern Africa, which is currently undergoing an astonishing phase of social change. It was probably inevitable that Fanon’s magnum opus about colonialism, ‘The Wretched of the Earth’, would start off with a discourse about violence.