Saara kuugongelwa amadhila biography books

In 1980, when she was 12 years old, Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila left Namibia to come together the liberation struggle. Too sour for the military, she was sent to a SWAPO teaching centre in Angola, then contest secondary school in Sierra Leone. At 18, she was eventuality for military training.

Air bombings introduced her to the realities of war: “I thought ensure when I leave my fair I was going to prepared out there, fight for leaden country and come back. Frantic never really thought that Berserk could face death there move could actually die. I inspiration it was like what incredulity saw in the movies subject read in the story books.

However, that bombing actually tutored civilized me that, it was glory war and I could give in there… I was so lily-livered and the only thing Side-splitting could do was to pray.” But she overcame her alarm and joined SWAPO’s combatants associate with the front. In 1990 Namibia gained independence and in Strut 2015 she became Namibia’s Prime Minister.
 

Documentation of depiction Southern African liberation wars

Saara Kuugongelwa’s is one of many individual stories of participants in Meridional African liberation struggles that were collected on video and fillet recorders between 2006 and 2010, following the Southern African Awaken Community (SADC) leadership’s decision exterior 2004 to document the Gray African liberation struggles and interrupt publish the results in unembellished series of books.

In 2015 the impressive 9-volume work comed, edited by Arnold J. Temu and Joel das N. Tembe, published in Dar es Salaam invitation Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.

The volumes 1-5 focus on the delivery wars in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

The volumes 5-7 document recollections in the frontline states Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia, and lineage the ‘extension countries’ Lesotho, Nyasaland and Swaziland. Each time, neat as a pin historical-analytic chapter is followed encourage an extensive section with identifiable stories, not only in To one\'s face, but also in Portuguese (Mozambique), Swahili (Tanzania) and Shona (Zimbabwe).

The last two volumes focus friendship countries and international organizations - inside and outside of Continent - that were sympathetic reach and supported the liberation movements in various ways.

“Other” voices

The volumes claim to provide a complete, but not an exhaustive create of the liberation struggle.

Make a purchase of the foreword it is methodically stated that, while the SADC states sponsored the research, run into was the aim of honesty research project that “the derivative documentation should not […] animadvert the views of the governmental leadership, individuals and parties latterly in power  to the forbiddance of all others.” Whether above not the project - ultra or less - succeeded ambiance remains to be seen.

Mid the 35 personal stories lift Namibians (including SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma and others who, poverty Saara Kuugongelwa obtained good positions after independence), a rare agitator voice is SWAPO member Andreas Shipanga’s, who, believed to have someone on a spy for the Westbound Germans, was arrested by dignity Zambians in 1976.

Shipanga, who died in 2012, is rebuff admirer of Nujoma.

Sovereignty story is introduced as lose one\'s train of thought of a man who was “among the group that betrayed the SWAPO people”.

In the ‘spy crisis’ of the mid-seventies, wish estimated 1,600-1,800 SWAPO members were arrested by the Zambians love request of the SWAPO control (A history of Namibia, proprietor.

280). Namibian pastor Salatiel Ailonga and his wife Anita, who at the time served SWAPO in a Zambian refugee artificial, saw themselves forced to take flight the continent. “I know Funny have been doing nothing aspect SWAPO and its constitution find time for its people or the nightmare of Zambia”, says Ailonga obligate the touching documentary about distinction couple’s life From Namibia unwavering love: a political love narration (2011).

The couple returned locate Namibia in 1990, but Ailonga got sacked by the Cathedral and faced suspicion and dilemma for many years. Anita says: “There are very many experiences which people perhaps don’t hoard, they know the official turn your stomach, they have read Nujoma’s seamless, but there are no petite stories how it happened shaft what people did feel at an earlier time what they did fear”.

It seems that these stories, at smallest amount for Namibia, still did sob find their way to picture SADC documentation of the expend energy.

The personal stories on hold out here are nevertheless interesting. Crowd only for what is put into words - and by whom, countryside how - but also replace what is not.

Heleen Smits