HOMECOMING THE GDR KIDS OF NAMIBIA Edited by CONSTANCE KENNA ( South West Africa Namibia History

HOMECOMING THE GDR KIDS OF NAMIBIA Edited by CONSTANCE KENNA ; Softcover ; New Namibia Books ; 1999  ;            ISBN 99916 31 70 4 ;  226 Pages ; ( HOME COMING )

Condition ; Overall very good  Cover has some light creases  including on the corners  ; very good binding ; no tears  ; no writing added ; very clean.

Also listed by me as a separate item ; Expelled From a Beloved Country ; Sven- Erik Kanzler

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" The article analyses a historical case of politically induced flight. The so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR) children from Namibia are about 430 people brought to the GDR between 1979 and 1989. They came from Namibian refugee camps and were part of a solidarity project between South West African Peoples Organization (SWAPO) and the GDR. They were educated to become the Namibian elite once the country had been liberated. Their stay was to be temporary, with the children identified as Namibian by SWAPO and GDR. The article reconstructs culturalist and biological-racist forms of othering as characteristic biographical experience of the young people which deny them belonging to GDR and Namibia. Simultaneously it examines how the young people irritate the categories of othering and create spaces of agency. They build a new hybrid language Oshi German thereby breaking culturalization and staying together as a collective in search of a place of belonging..."

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