Thought Leaders

Namibia has various political parties, each with their own constitutions.

Education for all was coined at the 1990 World Bank Conference in Jomtien, Thailand, which calls for the promotion of Western-style primary education in Africa, in the process robbing the African child of his or her indigenous knowledge and language, promoting what Brock-Utne calls ‘the recolonization of the African mind (Brock-Utne, 2000).

One positive take away from Covid-19 is that it has “forced” us to stand together as Namibians.

The sounds of the siren indicating different times and periods at a boarding school near where I stay has become part and parcel of our daily lives.

In many Namibian cultures, reproduction is seen as a central aspect of women’s role and society expects that any women in their reproductive age should be able to give birth to a child.

The goal of basic education is to empower learners to actively participate in making Namibia society a knowledge-based society.

In more ways than one, the world still longs for answers to its biggest challenge of the year; the pandemic which people have accurately compared to flying an aeroplane while building it.

In his classic book entitled Servant Leadership: Journey into the nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness, Robert K. Greenleaf suggests the concept of the servant as leader became out of reading Hermann Hesse’s ‘Journey to the East’.

Robert Greenleaf (1977) coined the term servant leadership, which emphasises that leaders be attentive to the concerns of their followers and nurture them. 

Globally, 11 October is earmarked, observed and celebrated as the International Day of the Girl.