2023-03-24Prof Makala Lilemba Namibia clocked 33 years of independence on 21 March 2023. As it is always sung, Namibian independence was not ushered on a platter, but it came by shedding the blood of many Namibians. View more
2023-04-06Prof Makala Lilemba During Africa’s colonisation, the West brought foreign and irrelevant ideologies to the indigenous people. In many cases, the African was downgraded and equated with animals that are driven by instincts. View more
2023-04-14Prof Makala Lilemba On the first day of the new school year, all teachers in one school received the following message through a memorandum from the principal: Dear Teacher, I am a survivor of Cassinga. My eyes saw what no man should witness: Machine guns built by learned engineers. View more
2023-04-21Prof Makala Lilemba Malcolm X once said, “if you want to hide something from black people, put it in a book.” Although the quotation was used in the American context, it has been widely applied worldwide to humiliate Africans. View more
2023-04-28Prof Makala Lilemba I recently sent a former grade 11 nephew to a nearby filling station shop to buy two newspapers, New Era and The Namibian, with concise instructions. View more
2023-05-05Prof Makala Lilemba The Mafwe community has established that educational activities which they cherished for centuries have been minimised or completely abolished through Western education. View more
2023-05-12Prof Makala Lilemba According to Spielvogel (2017), the university as we know it with faculty, students and degrees was not a product of ancient Greece or Rome, but of the High Middle Ages, which spanned from 1000 to 1300AD. View more
2023-05-19Prof Makala Lilemba The colonizers and other historians have the impression that the Luyanas ruled Caprivi (renamed Zambezi region in 2013) without the consent of its people. View more
2023-05-26Prof Makala Lilemba The ruling by the Supreme Court of Namibia on 16 May 2023 compelling government to recognise same-sex marriages officiated outside the country outraged many political parties. View more
2023-06-02Prof Makala Lilemba According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics Education Pays 2020: Career Outlook, PhD stands for Doctor of Philosophy, which refers to the immense knowledge a student gains when earning the degree. View more
2023-06-09Prof Makala Lilemba In his book, My Life in the SA Defence Force, Magnus Malan (2006), the former South African chief of the army and minister of defence, observed in a standoff between the South African government and Washington in the 1970s that the latter has no friends, but self-interests. View more
2023-06-16Prof Makala Lilemba During Africa’s colonisation, the West brought many foreign educational ideologies of which some were irrelevant to the African indigenous masses. View more
2023-06-23Prof Makala Lilemba Many Namibians are coming to terms with the current situation of economic hurdles and the high rate of unemployment. Resources are hard to come by and many people find it difficult to eke a decent living after 33 years of independence. View more
2023-06-30Prof Makala Lilemba Preparations are underway in Outapi, the regional capital of Omusati for the advent of Olufuko, on 1 July 2023, a cultural ceremony of the people in the northern part of Namibia. View more
2023-07-14Prof Makala Lilemba According to Frankena (1973), the word 'moral' is derived from the Latin word 'mos' or 'moralis', which means manner or custom, while the Greek word 'ethikos' for ethics means the same and it is concerned with the way we conduct ourselves or behave, as well as the course of action we take in certain moral problems. View more
2023-07-21Prof Makala Lilemba Mazrui (1986) in his documentary, ‘The Africans: A Triple Heritage’, ironically alludes to the African mind as being capable of forgetting easily despite what has happened in the past. View more
2023-07-28Prof Makala Lilemba The Legal Assistance Centre Series on Rule of Law defines the rule of law to mean that everyone, all individuals and all institutions including judges, magistrates, government officials, the police and the army, must follow the constitution and the law. View more
2023-08-04Prof Makala Lilemba 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 ekeout a niche in the forthcoming political dispensation. View more
2023-08-23Prof Makala Lilemba 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. View more
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