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- Job Amupanda
- The NUST Screenshot debate – between context and “fabrication” -
5 years ago
The NUST Screenshot debate – between context and “fabrication”The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) has been conducting interviews in search of a Vice Chancellor to replace the incumbent Tjama Tjivikua who has run the institution with an iron fist for more than two decades. There h...
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- Job Amupanda
- In An Unsuspecting Political Society Theatric Charlatan Appears Clever -
5 years ago
Job Shipululo Amupanda, a Senior Lecturer (political science) at the University of Namibia and a Decolonial Scholar and Activist with the Affirmative Repositioning movementWhy is it that people remember Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, long after he was overthrown and long after his body deco...
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- Job Amupanda
- Is Namibia a 24hour brothel for rich foreigners? -
5 years ago
Last August I was scheduled to address Heroes Day in Manchester. Due to sabotage, I could not make. Understandably, organisers – the Community on Namibian in Great Britain (CNGB) – were disappointed. Last week, one of CNGB members contacted me regarding the Russian land deal. She was concerned...
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- Job Amupanda
- Irresolute and Zigzagging Geingob caught offside -
5 years ago
It was on this newspaper page, on the 26th of September last year, wherein I delivered a formulation highlighting our country’s foreign policy crisis. I had submitted that since taking over the highest chair in our society, President Hage Geingob has chosen a foreign policy adventurist posture...
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- Job Amupanda
- Zephania Kameeta just another self-serving politician -
5 years ago
Many Namibians who have entangled themselves in a disempowering system of thought are alarmed by recent remarks by Minister of Poverty Zephania Kameeta on the Afrobarometer survey results recently released by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The survey found that ordinary N...
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- Job Amupanda
- Is Higher Education Creating Critical Thinkers or Zombies? -
5 years ago
In 1986, the United Nations Institute for Namibia (UNIN) published a study titled ‘Namibia: Perspectives for National Reconstruction and Development’. Submitting this book to United Nation Secretary General Perez de Cuellar, then UNIN Director Hage Geingob stated the following in his 30 April 1...
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- Job Amupanda
- Namibia’s Foreign Policy crisis -
5 years ago
The often ignored advantages of political scandals is their propensity to bring ‘higher discourse’ closer to ordinary people. Donald Trump’s ‘Nambia’ scandal delivered international politics to the lips of youth downloading liquor in Windhoek’s Eveline Street. At the lunch meeting with select Africa...
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- Job Amupanda
- Teaching Political Opportunist Margaret Mensah-Williams how to reason - an ontological response -
5 years ago
In 1997, celebrated Oshiwambo novelist and author Angula T. Ndjembo published an Oshiwambo drama titled ‘Okana Oke Eta Ekumbu lyamwene’. Ndjembo summarized the book as follows; “the title of this Oshindonga drama means ‘be careful of your tongue – it can land you in trouble’. The play deals with a y...
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- Job Amupanda
- Dangers of Sloganeering Presidents and brainwashed citizens -
5 years ago
How is it possible that a President can publicly claim that his government is pro-youth yet it’s policies led to increased youth unemployment, banishment of youth, 100 000 children out of school and 250 000 learners dropping out, and 60 000 graduates sitting at home? How is it possib...
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- Job Amupanda
- Harambee is evocative of Nyayo – A Response to Razikua Kaumbi -
5 years ago
Few weeks ago, I authored an article titled ‘dangers of sloganeering presidents and brainwashed citizens’ providing lessons of history using the examples of Kenya’s Daniel arap Moi and Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda. I argued that evidence exists necessitating remembrance Moi’s Nyayo and Kau...
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