Format:
1 online resource (338 pages)
ISBN:
9783905758467
Content:
Caprivi, the remote and narrow Namibian strip of land encapsulated by neighbouring Angola, Zambia and Botswana, has a contested colonial and postcolonial history. Bennett Kangumu traces the politics of its people in this complex borderlands since the late 19th century. Neglected by German and South African colonial administrations, its inhabitants were often pushed towards neighbouring territories though not being an integral part of them. At the same time, South African apartheid and homeland politics emphasised the ethnization of local identities. Becoming a strategic location in the ensuing liberation wars of the late 20th century, its history is often one of conquest and resistance, plunder, betrayal and rivalry. Kangumu shows how the inhabitants of Caprivi responded in various ways, notably in the form of regional nationalism when the Caprivi African National Union (CANU) was formed in the early 1960s. The Union's merger with the dominant Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO, was a claim to end seperation and isolation, which, however, flarred up again in post-colonial Namibia.
Content:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Isolation, Invasions and a 'Caprivian' Identity -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Population -- Ethnic Terminology -- Sources and Methodology -- Limitations of the Study -- Literature Review -- 2 Pre-Colonial Caprivi: Conquest, Betrayel and Rivalry -- Subiya-Lozi Relations -- Subiya-Makololo Interaction -- Subiya Defiance after the Lozi Restoration -- Other Groups in Pre-colonial Caprivi -- Summary -- 3 Colonial Administrative Identity I: From 1890 to World War II -- Informal Colonialism: Missionaries, Traders, and their Interaction in Caprivi -- The Creation of the Caprivi Identities -- Germany's Riparian State on the Zambezi -- Creating the Caprivi Identities -- Administering the Caprivi during the German Colonial Rule -- A Sphere of Influence, 1890-1909 -- Ma-Dostela in Der Caprivi Zipfel, 1909-1914 -- A Transferable Identity: The Caprivi 1914-1939 -- Military Rule, 1915-1921 -- Under the Bechuanaland Administration, 1921-1929 -- Appended to SWAA: The Caprivi Strip 1929-1939 -- 4 Colonial Administrative Identity II: From Bantu Reserve to Bantustan, 1939-1982 -- A Bantu Reserve, 1939-1960 -- Perceptions of Land and People -- A Place of Natural Beauty: The ECZ Bantu Reserve -- The Imperial War Graves Commission and the Caprivi -- Chief Simataa Mamili and the Administration -- Education and Health -- Barotse Privileges, Muntunjobuswa and the Caprivian Identities -- A South African Bantustan in Central Africa, the Caprivi Strip 1960-1980 -- The Odendaal Recommendation for a Bantustan -- The UN, Odendaal and the Caprivian Identities -- The Planning Committee -- Growth of Katima Mulilo and Social Control -- Ngweze Village Development -- The Caprivi Legislative Assembly and Caprivi Government -- Summary -- 5 The Frontier Identity of the Eastern Caprivi Zipfel.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783905758221
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783905758221
Language:
English
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