Kangumu: Contesting Caprivi
A History of Colonial Isolation and Regional Nationalism in Namibia
- 338 pages
- English
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Kangumu: Contesting Caprivi
A History of Colonial Isolation and Regional Nationalism in Namibia
About this book
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 Unions 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Isolation, Invasions and a ‘Caprivian’ Identity
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pre-Colonial Caprivi: Conquest, Betrayel and Rivalry
- 3 Colonial Administrative Identity I: From 1890 to World War II
- 4 Colonial Administrative Identity II: From Bantu Reserve to Bantustan, 1939-1982
- 5 The Frontier Identity of the Eastern Caprivi Zipfel
- 6 Rival Histories and Contested Caprivi Identities
- 7 African Responses to the Caprivi Identities
- 8 Regional Nationalism and Repression
- 9 Secession: The Identity of People as ‘Caprivians’ and not Namibians
- 10 Conclusion
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover