Biography of Swedish trader, philanthropist and ornithologist. Index, bib, notes, maps, b/w illus, 302pp, NAMIBIA. GAMSBERG MACMILLAN

2006 9991607463 Paperback

Story of a SAWPO activist, who worked for the liberation of Namibia, describing the contract labour system. Gloss, 134pp, UK. INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE & AID FUND.

Windhoek in the early 1960s: the 34-year-old politician Clemens Kapuuo knocks at the door of the senior advocate Israel Goldblatt to solicit advice regarding the myriad of difficulties encountered by Africans daily under the apartheid regime. An unusual relationship and friendship develops, one that transcends the racial divide in this south African-governed Territory and will last for nearly 10 years. Meeting in Goldblatt's chambers, at his home and in the Old Location, other participants in the consultations included the veteran politician Chief Hosea Kutako and a group of younger nationalists, among them Rev. Bartholomews Karuera and Levy Nganjone. Through Kapuuo, Goldblatt also met Kaptein Samuel Witbooi and counselled the long-term prisoner from Caprivi, Brendan Simbwaye. Israel Goldblatt's notes on these meetings were discovered after his death and form the core of this book. They are complemented by additional biographical information about his interlocutors, and annotations that place his notes in their historical and political context. B/w photos, 140pp, SWITZERLAND. BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN.

Africa in 1814: a 36-year-old German missionary exploring what is now southern Namibia marries the 20-year-old Zara, a Nama woman, whom he had baptized a few months previously. She helps him with translations and in transcribing her language into a written form, bears him four children, and dies in 1831. Those are the bare bones of a story that Ursula Trüper has fleshed out with the results of her research into this fascinating account about the African woman and her German husband. The missionary, Johann Hinrich Schmelen, was sent to South Africa in 1811 by the London Missionary Society. He is recognized today as a pioneer in the study of Khoekhoekowab, the Nama language, as well as for his evangelization of southern Namibia. His wife Zara and her contribution to her husband's work, on the other hand, are rarely mentioned, let alone acknowledged. This book rectifies that neglect. It provides insights not only into African social history and British and German mission history but also makes an important contribution to the steadily growing literature on the role of African women in African history. Index, bib, b/w illus, 118pp, SWITZERLAND. BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN.

Biography of Eliaser Tuhadeleni, a founder member of SWAPO who was imprisoned for life on Robben Island, but released in 1985. Extensive interviews and many photographs evoke the memory of 'Kaxumba'. Index, bib, gloss, 157pp, SWITZERLAND. BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN.

Translation from the Swedish edition of 1872 of this historic memoir of what became Namibia. Bib, notes, b/w historic photos, 240pp, NAMIBIA. NAMIBIA SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.

Historical biography of the vivid adventures of a private Swedish colonial mission. Born in 1846 in south-western Sweden, Axel Eriksson (‘Old Karuwapa’ as he become know in what was German South West Africa) was an explorer, trader and ornithologist. Bib, 50 b/w photos, 218pp, NAMIBIA. GAMSBERG MACMILLAN.

2007 9789991608518 Paperback

When Jane Katjavivi became involved in London in support of change in Southern Africa, she met and married a Namibian activist in exile. Moving with him to Namibia at the time of Independence in 1990, she faced a new life in a starkly beautiful country. She began publishing Namibian writing and opened a bookshop in Windhoek. When her husband was made Ambassador to the Benelux countries and the European Union, and later Berlin, she had to build a new identity as the wife of an ambassador, and come to terms with her own ill-health without her friends around her to support her. Set against the backdrop of the historical, political and social development of newly independent Namibia, this book tells the story of Jane’s love for her family, friends and her adopted country. 322pp, SOUTH AFRICA. MODJAJI BOOKS.

Autobiography of the SWAPO leader and Namibia's first President. B/w illus, app, index, 476pp, UK. PANAF BOOKS.