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Namibian historiography - Vilho Shigwedha


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Interview with Dr Vilho Shigwedha from the University of Namibia, August 2015

Vilho Shigwedha is a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography, History and Environmental Studies at the Unversity of Namibia in Windhoek. He, Martha Akawa and a group of students visited the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in August 2015. In this interview he talks about becoming a historian and researching the controversial history of the Cassinga massacre in southern Angola in 1978 during the Namibian liberation struggle.

The following book is available in the book shop of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien:

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