Contesting Caprivi - Bennett Kangumu

Caprivi the remote and narrow Namibian strip of land encapsulated by neighbouring Angola Zambia and Botswana has a contested colonial and postcolonial history. Bennett Kangumu traces the politics of its people in this complex borderlands since the late 19th century. Neglected by German and South African colonial administrations its inhabitants were often pushed towards neighbouring territories though not being an integral part of them. At the same time South African apartheid and homeland politics emphasised the ethnization of local identities. Becoming a strategic location in the ensuing liberation wars of the late 20th century its history is often one of conquest and resistance plunder betrayal and rivalry. Kangumu shows how the inhabitants of Caprivi responded in various ways notably in the form of regional nationalism when the Caprivi African National Union (CANU) was formed in the early 1960s. The Union's merger with the dominant Namibian liberation movement SWAPO was a claim to end seperation and isolation which however flarred up again in post-colonial Namibia.

TITLE: Contesting Caprivi

AUTHOR: Bennett Kangumu

SKU: 9783905758221

PUBLISHER: Basler Afrika Bibliographien

DATE PUBLISHED: 07/07/2011

PLACE PUBLISHED: Switzerland

PAGES: 336

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 170 mm x 240 mm