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    Changing urbanscapes: Colonial and postcolonial monuments in Windhoek 

    Becker, Heike (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 ...
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    Against trauma: silence, victimhood, and (photo-) voice in Northern Namibia 

    Becker, Heike (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 ...
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    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 

    Becker, Heike (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 ...
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    'We can be united, but we are different': discourse of difference in postcolonial Namibia 

    Akuupa, Michael (Forum Press, 2010)
    Social scientists who have written about the dynamics of festival rituals have analysed such practices variously as celebrations of commonality, as the enhancement of social cohesion, or as expressions of nostalgia. Festivals ...
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    Namibia’s moment: youth and urban land activism 

    Becker, Heike (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 ...
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    From 'One Namibia, One Nation' towards 'Unity in Diversity? Shifting representations of culture and nationhood in Namibian Independence Day celebrations, 1990-2010 

    Akuupa, Michael; Kornes, Godwin (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
    In 2010 Namibia celebrated its twentieth anniversary of independence from South African rule. The main celebrations in the country’s capital Windhoek became the stage for an impressively orchestrated demonstration of ...

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    Culture (2)Kavango (2)Nationalism (2)Postcolonial (2)Affirmative repositioning (1)Cultural nationalism (1)Festival (1)Genocide Memorial (1)Hage Geingob (1)... View MoreDate Issued2015 (2)2010 (1)2013 (1)2016 (1)2018 (1)Has File(s)Yes (6)

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