Joseph Diescho

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Joseph Brian Diescho (born April 10, 1955 in Diyogha near Andara , South West Africa , today Namibia ) is a Namibian writer , professor and political scientist .

Life

Joseph Diescho was born in 1955 in a village near the Roman Catholic Andara Mission in what is now the Kavango East region. With support from the Church, he attended Rundu Secondary School and then the University of Fort Hare in South Africa , where he began to study law and political science. He suspended his studies for a year and worked for the Consolidated Diamond Mines (CDM) in Oranjemund . He participated in civil rights movements, but then returned to Fort Hare, where he obtained his first doctorate. He was one of the youngest PhDs in the university's history.

With the help of scholarships, he continued his studies in 1987 at the University of Hamburg and in 1988 at Columbia University New York in the subjects of African Studies and Political Economy . He holds a total of seven university degrees, including three masters and two doctorates. From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Joseph Diescho was Professor of International Politics at the City University of New York .

He then returned to South Africa and took on numerous positions in science, research and television, including as speaker and lecturer at the UNISA Center for African Renaissance Studies.

In 2015 and 2016 Diescho was Managing Director of the Namibia Institute of Public Administration and Management before he was fired.

Works

  • Born of the Sun: A Namibian Novel . Friendship Press, New York 1988, ISBN 978-0-377-00188-6 .
    • In his first novella Born of the Sun Diescho tells the story of a Namibian miner, his childhood, times in prison and liberating self-commitment for the fight for freedom.
  • Troubled waters: A novel . Gamsberg Macmillan Verlag, Windhoek 1993, ISBN 978-0-86848-810-3 .
    • Troubled Waters is a novella and is about the social upheavals in what was then South West Africa.
  • The Namibian Constitution in Perspective . Gamsberg Macmillan Verlag, Windhoek 1994, ISBN 978-0-86848-895-0 .
  • Government and opposition in post-independence Namibia . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Windhoek 1996, ISBN 978-99916-39-04-8 .
  • Understanding the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Windhoek 2003, ISBN 978-99916-751-8-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Diescho ( memento from June 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in the personal database of the Namibia Institute for Democracy nid.org.na
  2. ^ NIPAM boss Professor Joseph Diescho fired . Namibiana, February 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Diescho, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diescho, Joseph Brian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian writer, professor and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Diyogha near Andara , South West Africa