Lehigh University Press, 2015. — 398 p. — ISBN: 1611461502, 9781611461503. Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast. Here they begin a farm in a quite remote area where they raise cattle, sheep,...
Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1963. — 274 p. Excerpt. 'What exactly do you think you're doing?' the Archivist in Windhoek demanded, calling me into his office. 'Collecting material for a book,' I said. He could stop me, he said aggressively. We argued the toss; he produced the Archives Act, and then compromised. I could work there, but he would decide what material I could not...
London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1918. — 212 p. Edmund Howard Gorges (d. 1949) was Brigadier General and Сommander of West African Regiments from 1914 to 1916. Нe is the author of The Great War in West Africa , published by Hutchinson (1920).
Scarecrow Press, 1994. — 724 p. Namibia is not one of the largest or most important African states, but it has attracted more attention than most. The reason is obvious. It was a crucial test case in decolonization of southern Africa and the struggle continued for years. Now that Namibia is independent, it can only be hoped that the interest will be sustained in one of Africa's...
Routledge, 1966. — 269 p. — ISBN: 0714616702, 9780714616704. This text includes short sketches of each of the principal tribes of South-West Africa, showing their state of development, their mode of living and how they differ from each other.
James Currey, 1998. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0852557477, 9780852557471. The peoples of Namibia have been on the move throughout history. The South Africans took over from the Germans in 1915 in trying to fit them into a colonial landscape. This book is about the clashes and stresses which resulted from the determined efforts at containment during the first three decades of South...
Zed Press, 1989. — 232 p. — ISBN: 0862328969, 9780862328962. This book on the war in Namibia, by journalist Denis Herbstein and John Evenson, the director of the Namibia Communications Centre in London, focuses primarily on the 1980s. The information in it reflects the close communication between churches in Namibia and the liberation movement SWAPO, and includes much detail...
Zed Press, 1989. — 232 p. — ISBN: 0862328969, 9780862328962. This book on the war in Namibia, by journalist Denis Herbstein and John Evenson, the director of the Namibia Communications Centre in London, focuses primarily on the 1980s. The information in it reflects the close communication between churches in Namibia and the liberation movement SWAPO, and includes much detail...
Africa World Pr, 1990. — 152 p. — (Unesco Apartheid and Society Series). — ISBN: 0865431442, 9780865431447. Documents resistance to the German conquest by the Herero and Nama peoples; the South African take-over under the League of Nations mandate; land, labour and community resistance from 1920-1960; the emergence of Nationalist organisations; appeals to the UN and the ICJ;...
Ohio University Press, 1995. — 224 p. It took twenty-three years of armed struggle before Namibia could gain its independence from South Africa in March 1990. SWAPO's victory was remarkable in the face of an overwhelmingly superior enemy. How this came about, and at what cost, is the subject of this outstanding study that is based on unpublished documents and extensive...
Brill, 2016. — viii, 180 p. Hifikepunye Pohamba has been the second Head of State since Namibia’s Independence in 1990. As successor to Sam Nujoma he held office for two terms from March 2005 to March 2015. At the end of his presidency he was awarded the Mo Ibrahim Prize for good governance as the fifth statesman of the continent. This overview covers the twelve years from his...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 202 p. — ISBN: 0333777220, 9780333777220, 9780230524118. Scanty evidence has been the major obstacle for studying historical demography in Sub Saharan Africa. Our most certain knowledge of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century populations development is based on a retrospective view of the post Second World War censuses. In north...
Windhoek: SWA Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, 1981. — 338 p. — ISBN: 9780949995346, 0949995347. Drei Jahrzehnte lang, von 1884 bis 1914, stand Südwestafrika unter dem Schutz des Deutschen Reiches. Die vorkoloniale Zeit kennt keine massiven Häuser und keine Städte. Daher sind die in der wilhelminischen Kaiserzeit errichteten Gebäude die ältesten im Lande. In Südwestafrika...
Praeger, 2008. — 320 p. — (PSI Reports). — ISBN: 0313362564, 9780313362576, 9780313362569. More and more, the descendants of indigenous victims of genocide, land expropriation, forced labor, and other systematic human rights violations committed by colonial powers are seeking reparations under international law from the modern successor governments and corporations. As the...
Windhoek: Committee of the S.W.A. Scientific Society, 1967. — (Scientific research in South West Africa). — 92 p. Tsumeb: A Historical Sketch written by Gerhard Söhnge in 1966, is a rare documentation on South West Afrika's mining history in the Tsumeb region, spanning from 1906 to 1966.
Columbia University Press, 2011. — 452 p. — (Columbia/Hurst). — ISBN: 0231701942, 9780231701945. Namibia gained its independence in 1990 after decades of struggle against South African rule. Before its battles with South Africa, the country spent years within the grip of German colonialism. In this book, the first general history of Namibia to be published in more than two...
Durban: H.A. Naidoo & Sorabjee Rustomjee, 1946. — 31 p. The contents of this pamphlet represent a memorandum presented to the Secretary-General of the United Nations by Dr. A.B. Xuma, President General of the African National Congress.
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1993. — 255 с. — (История стран Африки). В книге впервые в отечественной литературе исследуются основные этапы истории Намибии в новое и новейшее время: формирование раннеполитических структур в доколониальный период, германская колонизация, южноафриканская оккупация. Рассматривается зарождение и развитие национально-освободительного...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1993. — 255 с. — (История стран Африки). В книге впервые в отечественной литературе исследуются основные этапы истории Намибии в новое и новейшее время: формирование раннеполитических структур в доколониальный период, германская колонизация, южноафриканская оккупация. Рассматривается зарождение и развитие национально-освободительного...
Перевод с немецкого А.С. Балезина. — М.: Наука, 1987. — 294 с. Первая в марксистской африканистике монография, посвященная германскому колониализму в Намибии, написана видным ученым из ГДР. Исследуется весь период германского колониального господства во взаимосвязях с современным этапом национально-освободительной борьбы в Намибии. Основное внимание уделяется антиколониальной...
Перевод с английского. — М.: Прогресс, 1988. — 264 с. — ISBN 5-01-001016-X. Предлагаемая книга является автобиографической документальной повестью одного нз руководителей Народной организации Юго-Западной Африки (СВАПО). В ней живо и образно рассказывается о повседневной жизни простых намибийцев, раскрывается панорама национально-освободительной борьбы намибийского народа...
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