2022-05-09Prof Makala Lilemba It has been maintained for centuries that politics is a dirty game, but this thinking is losing ground and weight. In some quarters, the feeling is that politics itself is not dirty, but the political practitioners are the ones who are tarnishing the image and game of this field. View more
2022-05-13Prof Makala Lilemba It is a fact that the Namibian education system has not been performing at the senior secondary level as expected for some years now. The main cause of the high rate has been English – and to some extent Mathematics and other science subjects. View more
2022-05-20Prof Makala Lilemba The Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885, commonly known in some quarters as the Scramble for Africa, demarcated Africa into many partitions. According to the renowned Kenyan academician, Ali Mazrui, in his series, ‘The Africans: A Triple Heritage’, the colonisers brought together and separated ethnic groups against their will. View more
2022-06-06Prof Makala Lilemba It has been maintained for centuries that politics is a dirty game, but this thinking is losing ground and weight. In some quarters, the feeling is that politics, itself, is not dirty, but the political practitioners are the ones who are tarnishing the image and game of this field. View more
2022-06-17Prof Makala Lilemba The South African regime was brutal and used its security forces in beating, torturing, maiming and killing supporters of the liberation struggle. View more
2022-06-24Prof Makala Lilemba Frantz Fanon (originally from Martinique Island and later settled in Algeria) believed that violent revolution was the only means of ending colonial repression and cultural trauma in the Third World. View more
2022-07-01Prof Makala Lilemba In the Holy Book, King Solomon, the wisest person whoever lived in the third chapter of Ecclesiastes states that there is time for everything in the universe. View more
2022-07-08Prof Makala Lilemba One of the reasons for taking up arms and sacrifice the lives of many Namibians was to change and improve the inferior education system offered by the colonialists to the indigenous peoples of Namibia. View more
2022-07-15Prof Makala Lilemba The border post between Namibia and Zambia at Wenela in Katima Mulilo was closed during the occupation of the racist South African Government. View more
2022-08-12Prof Makala Lilemba The state of phobia between lawmakers and academicians has been simmering for many centuries, and yet no solution is in sight. In ancient Greece, Socrates was condemned to death by drinking hemlock because of his questions about life and knowledge and other issues, which affected humankind. View more
2022-08-19Prof Makala Lilemba It seems the strike in which teachers were threatening “to lay down the pieces of chalk” has been thwarted by the 3% increment. This means the anger and frustration of the majority of teachers has been appeased and numbed by the increment, which others see as a drop in the ocean. View more
2022-09-02Prof Makala Lilemba It seems the quest for a paramount chief in the Zambezi region is still on the cards, and it is only that this time around it is being aired on social media through video clips by a secret cult organisation whose members are operating from Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. The members of this secret cult happen to belong to the Masubiya ethnic group. View more
2022-09-09Prof Makala Lilemba The tendency to blame other people for our mistakes comes a long way. One may even affirm that this tendency is old as the creation itself. Biblical scholars and Christians alike derive this tendency from the moment when Adam shifted the blame for eating the forbidden fruit on the Creator and his wife, Eve. View more
2022-09-16Prof Makala Lilemba This article responds to the rebuttal of Mr David Mabuta Kapule on my discourse ‘The Quest for a Paramount Chief in the Zambezi’, in the New Era of 2 September 2022. The half-Namibia-Botswana citizen, currently studying in the United States of America, tries to silence my academic freedom. View more
2022-09-23Prof Makala Lilemba It is usually said that ‘what goes around comes around’, but perhaps in the current Namibian situation should be the other way round – that ‘what comes around goes around’. View more
2022-09-30Prof Makala Lilemba All the roads will lead to Chinchimane traditional Village on Sunday, 2 October 2022, when the Mafwe ethnic group will be celebrating 41 years of Lusata traditional mace. The mace, referred to as Lusata, has symbols signifying the important cultural unity of the Mafwe. View more
2022-10-07Prof Makala Lilemba The Lusata cultural ceremony of the Mafwe ethnic group in the Zambezi region has just ended. The yearly ceremony attracted high level traditional and political delegates from three countries. View more
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