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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2015
      08 October 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316162958
      9781107099340
      9781107492028
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316162958
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 284 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, Politics and International Relations, African Government, Politics and Policy, African History
      Series:
      African Studies (136)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Politics and International Relations, African Government, Politics and Policy, African History
    Series:
    African Studies (136)
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    This book traces the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) across its three decades in exile through rich, local histories of the camps where Namibian exiles lived in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola. Christian A. Williams highlights how different Namibians experienced these sites, as well as the tensions that developed within SWAPO as Namibians encountered one another and as officials asserted their power and protected their interests within a national community. The book then follows Namibians who lived in exile into post-colonial Namibia, examining the extent to which divisions and hierarchies that emerged in the camps continue to shape how Namibians relate to one another today, undermining the more just and humane society that many had imagined. In developing these points about SWAPO, the book draws attention to Southern African literature more widely, suggesting parallels across the region and defining a field of study that examines post-colonial Africa through 'the camp'.

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    'Drawing upon insights from anthropology as well as a number of remarkable interviews he conducted with Namibians who had been in exile, Williams’s ‘historical ethnography’ is rich and sophisticated. No one concerned with SWAPO’s exile history in future will be able to ignore this book.'Christopher Saunders, Journal of Contemporary History

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