2023-09-08Prof Makala Lilemba 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. View more
2023-09-08Prof Makala Lilemba 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. View more
2023-09-26Prof Makala Lilemba 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. View more
2023-10-13Prof Makala Lilemba The Lusata Ceremony of the Mafwe community held on 1 October has come to pass, and it is going back to square one. View more
2023-12-08Prof Makala Lilemba 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. View more
2023-12-15Prof Makala Lilemba 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. View more
2024-01-29Prof Makala Lilemba 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. View more
2024-02-16Prof Makala Lilemba During his inaugural address on 4 March 1933, Franklin Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States of America, told his fellow Americans that the only thing they had to fear was fear itself. View more
2024-03-01Prof Makala Lilemba South African author Charles Bosman, renowned for his heartbreaking portrayals of life in the rural areas of South Africa, relates a tale of “Unto Dust”, in which an African and an Afrikaner man are killed in a skirmish during the peak of wars between the Afrikaners and Africans. View more
2024-03-15Prof Makala Lilemba A fairytale is narrated in which young men in one village got rid of their elders save for one who hid his own. When snake entangles their new chief, it is the hidden old man who dangles a mouse in front of the snake, releasing its grip over the young man. View more
2024-03-22Prof Makala Lilemba After 34 years of nationhood, Namibians are still subjected to house repossession, despite having struggled to have a house called their own home. View more
2024-03-28Prof Makala Lilemba Namibia’s 34th Independence celebration on 21 March 2024 was held in Katima Mulilo, the regional capital of the Zambezi region. View more
2024-04-05Prof Makala Lilemba FOUR years to this year in 1970, the Zambezi region (Caprivi Strip then) experienced a dry climatic weather spell coupled with a very low crop harvest. View more
2024-04-22Prof Makala Lilemba The devil’s claw, whose scientific name is harpagophytum procumbens, is native to Southern Africa, and gets its name from the tiny hooks that cover its fruit. View more
2024-04-26Prof Makala Lilemba Article 104 of the Constitution empowers the President of the Republic of Namibia, with the approval of the National Assembly, to appoint the Boundaries Delimitation and Demarcation Commission to delimit and demarcate the boundaries of Namibia, subject to Article 1(4). View more
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