Empires and kingdoms came and went in full view of their incumbents.
Author: Prof Makala Lilemba (Prof Makala Lilemba )
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Opinion – Frustrating and pulling down intellectuals
I was honoured to attend the launch of Charles Mubita’s book, titled, ‘Symbiotic Relationship Between National Interest and Foreign Policy: The Nexus of Decision Making’, on 20 January 2024, which drew people from different spectrum of academicians, diplomats, politicians and rank and file.
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Opinion – Walking free from the Windhoek maximum security prison
After more than two decades of incarceration, another batch of eight alleged secessionists were freed on Friday, 1 December 2023 to the joyous reunion with their families.
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Opinion – Electioneering, concretisation of employment promises
It will be appropriate to borrow the title of Tjingaete’s book, “Weeping Graves of our Ancestors,” to express the current situation in Namibia in terms of the high unemployment level.
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Enhancing unity through Lusata Cultural Ceremony
The Lusata Ceremony of the Mafwe community held on 1 October has come to pass, and it is going back to square one.
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Opinion – Lusata cultural ceremony: Beyond drumming and dancing
Members of the Mafwe community are flocking to Chinchimane in the Sibbinda Constituency of the Zambezi region over the weekend of 1 October 2023 in a festive mood to celebrate the Lusata Cultural Festival.
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Developmental routes of the Zambezi
For easy and manageable ranking, the Zambezi region can be divided into four routes radiating from the central zone of development, which is the town of Katima Mulilo. Each route has experienced some form of developmental challenges.
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Unfortunately, not a nation Yet!
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, nationalism is defined as loyalty and devotion to a nation, especially a sense of national consciousness, exalting one nation above all others, and placing primary emphasis on the promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.
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Africa’s political leadership deficiency
A Triple Heritage, Programme 6,’ Ali Mazrui, in 1986, narrates the inferiority complex situation in which Lyndon Johnson and Daniel Arap Moi found themselves after the deaths of the charismatic leaderships of John F Kennedy of the United States of America and Jomo Kenyatta of the Republic of Kenya respectively.
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Opinion – Giving them another political chance again
The National and Presidential elections are looming, as they are to be held next year. In some circles, the members of political parties are applying push and pull strategies to try to eke
out a niche in the forthcoming political dispensation.