Christian A. Williams's National Liberation in Post-Colonial Southern Africa: A PDF

By Christian A. Williams

ISBN-10: 110709934X

ISBN-13: 9781107099340

ISBN-10: 1107492025

ISBN-13: 9781107492028

This e-book strains the South West Africa People's association (SWAPO) throughout its 3 many years in exile via wealthy, neighborhood histories of the camps the place Namibian exiles lived in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola. Christian A. Williams highlights how assorted Namibians skilled those websites, in addition to the tensions that constructed inside of SWAPO as Namibians encountered each other and as officers asserted their strength and guarded their pursuits inside of a countrywide neighborhood. The booklet then follows Namibians who lived in exile into post-colonial Namibia, analyzing the level to which divisions and hierarchies that emerged within the camps proceed to form how Namibians relate to each other this present day, undermining the extra simply and humane society that many had imagined. In constructing those issues approximately SWAPO, the booklet attracts cognizance to Southern African literature extra largely, suggesting parallels around the quarter and defining a box of research that examines post-colonial Africa via 'the camp'.

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