National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: a Historical Ethnography of SWAPO's Exile Camps

Description

This book traces the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) across its three decades in exile through rich, local histories of the camps where Namibian exiles lived in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola and highlights how different Namibians experienced these sites, as well as the tensions that developed within. Read less Part I. Camp, Nation, History: 1. Liberation movement camps and the past of the present in Southern Africa; 2. Revisiting an image of a camp: remember Cassinga?; Part II. Camps and the Formation of a Nation: 3. Living in exile: life and crisis at SWAPO's Kongwa Camp, 1964-8; 4. Ordering the nation: SWAPO in Zambia, 1974-6; 5. 'The spy' and the camp: SWAPO in Angola, 1980-9; Part III. Camps and the Production of History: 6. Namibia's 'Wall of Silence': challenging national history in the international system; 7. Reconciliation in Namibia? Narrating the past in a post-camp nation; 8. The camp and the post-colony.