“Desert of Namibia” is a somewhat unclassifiable film, but it’s deeply felt, defiant, embodied – female. “I didn’t go out of my way to think about my positionality,” said Yamanaka.

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four months after winning an election for the long-ruling SWAPO party, albeit the party itself had a reduced majority. Graham Hopwood, special advisor on Namibia for Horizon Engage — a research ...

Itula, a former member of the Southwest Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), struggled to unseat the ruling party, which has held power since Namibia gained independence in 1990. SWAPO, founded in ...

Namibia’s President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah ... the ranks of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation, or Swapo. She becomes the second woman to hold the vice presidency in the ...

Nandi-Ndaitwah is a veteran of the South West Africa People’s Organization, or SWAPO, which led Namibia’s fight for independence and has been its ruling party ever since. She was the ninth of ...

which is banned in Namibia except in exceptional circumstances. Gay marriage is also illegal. A member of SWAPO since her early teens, she was exiled in Moscow during the liberation struggle.

Before assuming the presidency, Nandi-Ndaitwah asides from being Namibia’s vice president, was also a long-standing member of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO), which has led ...

Namibian and ruling Swapo party President Sam Nujoma speaks during an election rally in Windhoek, Namibia, Nov. 13, 2004. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe His casket, draped in the Namibian flag with the ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed ... The Southern African country's SWAPO party, which has governed the nation of around 3 million people for more than three ...

West civil war — allowed SWAPO to set up bases on its territory. Yet that gave further ideological ammunition to South Africa, which justified its control over Namibia (which the Pretoria ...

SWAPO has been Namibia’s ruling party since 1990, and Nujoma ultimately led it for 47 years until stepping down in 2007. When South Africa refused to heed a 1966 U.N. resolution ending the ...