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Changing urbanscapes: Colonial and postcolonial monuments in Windhoek
(Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2018)
This article investigates how recently-constructed sites that anchor memories of anti-colonial
resistance and national liberation have changed the urban landscape of the Namibian capital,
Windhoek. The discussion is ...
Against trauma: silence, victimhood, and (photo-) voice in Northern Namibia
(UFS, 2015)
The article shows how the discourses of trauma, victimhood and silence regarding local agency contributed to the production of the nationalist master narrative in postcolonial Namibia. However, I point out repositories of ...
From ‘to die a tribe and be born a nation’ towards ‘culture, the foundation of a nation’: the shifting politics and aesthetics of Namibian nationalism
(Otjivanda Presse, 2015)
Namibia’s postcolonial nationalist imaginary is by no means homogeneous. Overall, however, it is conspicuous that as Namibia celebrates her twenty-fifth anniversary of independence, national identity is no longer defined ...
Namibia’s moment: youth and urban land activism
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
A few months short of the 25th anniversary of independence from South Africa in March 1990 Namibia reached her Fanonian moment. As Achille Mbembe has explained this term with regard to the South African student movements ...
“Youth speaking truth to power”: Intersectional decolonial activism in Namibia
(Springer, 2022)
This article portrays a recent movement towards intersectional activism in urban
Namibia. Since 2020, young Namibian activists have come together in campaigns
to decolonize public space through removing colonial monuments ...