Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
Henning Melber (PhD) is also Senior Research Associate, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala/Sweden; Senior Research Fellow, The Institute for Commonwealth Studies/School for Advanced Study, University of London; Professor Extraordinary, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies/University of the Free State, Bloemfontein; and a Director emeritus/Senior Advisor of The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala/Sweden. He was the van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Professor for Sociology and Political Sciences at the University of Cape Town in October/November 2017.
Co-editor: Africa Yearbook/Managing co-editor: Africa Spectrum/Editor-in-chief: Strategic Review for Southern Africa
Pop culture: restoring Namibia's forgotten resistance music
Dec 09, 2019 04:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
There is a rich history of 20th century music in Namibia that was suppressed and all but erased by political forces. Now an archive project called Stolen Moments Namibian Music History Untold is restoring it to the public...
Namibia's long-standing land issue remains unresolved
Nov 04, 2018 14:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Thirty years of German settler colonialism in South West Africa from 1884 to 1914 paved the way for continued apartheid under South Africa. The resistance of the local communities against the invasion culminated in the...
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