Voices from the Kavango. A Study of the Contract Labor System in Namibia, 1925–1972
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Voices from the Kavango explores the contribution that the life histories and the voices of the contract laborers make to our understanding of the contract labor system in Namibia. In particular it asks: is it possible to view the migration of the Kavango laborers as a progressive step, or does the paradigm of exploitation and oppression remain the dominant one? The study highlights contract laborers engaging in a defeating activity and their disappointment with the little rewards which were non-lasting solutions to their problems. The realization of their entrapment under the contract system and the eventual frustrations led to the political mobilization for independence by SWAPO.
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Language: English
approx. 250 pages
illustrations, index
BNSS Vol. 22
Print: 978-3-906927-19-0
PDF: 978-3-906927-20-
approx. 250 pages
illustrations, index
BNSS Vol. 22
Print: 978-3-906927-19-0
PDF: 978-3-906927-20-
Authors
Kletus Likuwa obtained his PhD from the University of the Western Cape for the thesis which comprises this book. He is the Deputy Director for the Multidisciplinary Research Centre (MRC) at the University of Namibia in Windhoek.
