Henning Melber

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Henning Melber (born August 22, 1950 in Stuttgart ) is a German - Namibian Africanist and political activist.

Life

Melber grew up in Eßlingen am Neckar and Leutkirch in Baden-Württemberg. He came to Namibia in 1967 as a youth and the son of German immigrants and graduated from the German Higher Private School in Windhoek . In 1974 he joined the liberation movement SWAPO . From 1975 to 1990 he was banned from entering Namibia. Melber studied politics and sociology at the Free University of Berlin in the 1970s and graduated in 1977 with a diploma in political science . He received his doctorate in 1980 from the University of Bremen with a thesis on "School and Colonialism". From 1982 to 1992 he was an assistant in the social sciences department at the University of Kassel . In 1993 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bremen. From 1992 to 2000 he was head of the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek . From 1994 to 2000 he was chairman of the Namibian-German Foundation for Cultural Cooperation in Windhoek. From 1996 to 1998 he was also chairman of the Association of Namibian Publishers (ANP). In 2000 he moved to the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet in Uppsala , Sweden , as research director , where he headed the “ Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation” from 2006–2012 , to which he is currently still in an advisory capacity.

Melber has been an associate professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria in South Africa since 2012 . Since 2013 he has also been an associate professor at the Center for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Henning Melber is married and has one daughter.

Publications

Melber has published numerous books and several hundred articles on problems and the history of Namibia, as well as on other topics such as internationalism and racism:

  • School and Colonialism: The Formal Education System of Namibia , Hamburg 1979.
  • The last word in wisdom: Racism and the colonial gaze , Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-86099-102-7 .
  • Opportunities for international civil society , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-11797-1 .
  • A New Scramble for Africa? Imperialism, Investment and Development , Scottsville, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2009, ISBN 978-1-86914-171-4 .
  • The United Nations and Regional Challenges in Africa - 50 Years after Dag Hammarskjöld , Development Dialogue, No. 57, December 2011, ISBN 978-91-85214-63-1 .
  • Understanding Namibia. Jacana Media, Cape Town 2014, ISBN 978-1-4314-2133-6 . (also Oxford University Press, London 2015, ISBN 978-0190241568 .)
  • Namibia - Sociopolitical Explorations since Independence. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-95558-109-1 .
  • Henning Melber, Reinhart Kößler : Genocide - and what then? The politics of German-Namibian coming to terms with the past . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-95558-193-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita of Henning Melber , Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg University of Konstanz .
personal data
SURNAME Melber, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Namibian Africanist and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart