Namibian-Swedish relations
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The Namibian-Swedish relations describe the current and historical international relations between Namibia , formerly also German South West Africa or South West Africa , and Sweden .
history
Swedes were the leading European traders in the period before the German protected area of German South West Africa , between around 1850 and 1880, and represented the largest group of foreigners in today's Namibia.
Karl Johan Andersson founded a trading post in Otjimbingwe in the early 1860s . After his death, his compatriot, who had been a trainee until then, Axel Wilhelm Eriksson opened a trading center in Omaruru . Here he also founded the Omaruru Brewery , the country's first brewery , with Thure Een and Anders Ohlsson , the most prominent historical figure in brewing beer in southern Africa .
Historically, the Swedish traders and settlers were primarily closely connected to the OvaHerero , which was demonstrated by marriage, among other things.
The city museum of Omaruru , an old building of the Rhenish Mission Society , where Axel Eriksson married his first wife, Fanny Stewardson, in the first Christian wedding in the country, testifies to the Swedish times in today's Namibia . In addition, the Lindholm House is not far from here .
Sweden made a significant contribution to Namibia's independence in 1990.
From 2006 to 2012 the German-Namibian activist and Africanist Henning Melber headed the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala .
Todays situation
The diplomatic relations between the two countries are considered excellent. Namibia has an embassy in Stockholm , while Sweden has an honorary consulate in Windhoek . Until 2008 Sweden also had an embassy in Namibia.
Among other things, there is a town twinning between Swakopmund and Malmö .
Through its national development cooperation organizations, Sweden has made a major contribution to the development of Namibia since 1990.
Sweden had a significant trade surplus of about 214 million Swedish kronor in trade with Namibia in 2018 . In total, Sweden imported goods and services worth SEK 14.2 million from Namibia that year and exported SEK 228.7 million.
literature
- A demo market - for Swedish innovative solutions, Study of Opportunities in the Namibian Market , Business Sweden, 2017. ( available online )
- Eric Graf von Rosen: From the Cape to Cairo. Research and adventures of the Swedish Rhodesia-Congo expedition , Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1924.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael G. Ryan: Anders Ohlsson, Brewe and Politician 1881-94 , University of Cape Town, September 1976 .
- ↑ a b Local is Lekker in Omaruru. Travel News Namibia. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- ↑ Tor Sellström: Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa , Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala 1999, pp. 237-238
- ↑ Sweden-Namibia relations: The ties that bind. The Namibian, October 20, 2008.
- ^ Namibia, Sweden sign final agreement. The Namibian, March 7, 2007.
- ↑ Imports and exports of goods by trading partners, adjusted for non response by trading partners, observations and year. SCB. Retrieved December 9, 2019.