2021-04-16Prof Makala Lilemba At the dawn of Kenyan independence in 1963, Jomo Kenyatta its first president was faced with the mammoth task of building and uniting the new nation. View more
2021-05-07Prof Makala Lilemba Namibia has lately been rated by the World Bank as one of the countries with the highest inequalities and skewed economic development in the world. View more
2021-05-14Prof Makala Lilemba In line with apartheid philosophy, the South African government imposed an oppressive Bantu education system in Namibia. Hotep (2003) maintains that Europeans perfected three types of colonialism over the years, namely territorial, intellectual and mental upon the indigenous peoples of Africa. Now China has moved in to continue exploiting the Africans economically and politically. View more
2021-05-21Prof Makala Lilemba Burger (1993) defines indigenous knowledge as the local knowledge that is unique to a particular culture or society, also termed folk knowledge, people’s knowledge, traditional wisdom or traditional science. View more
2021-05-28Prof Makala Lilemba For many years, debates and renunciations among Western and African philosophers trained in Western schools of philosophy rejected the notion of an African being able to be critical and innovative under any circumstances. View more
2021-06-04Prof Makala Lilemba Abraham Lincoln, the sixth president of the United States of America defined democracy as government of the people, by the people and for the people. View more
2021-06-11Prof Makala Lilemba The history of the Namibian liberation struggle cannot be complete without the contributions and sacrifices made by the sons and daughters from Chixhu-Sesheke-Singalamwe corridor. View more
2021-06-18Prof Makala Lilemba After leaving the Chixhu-Sesheke-Singalamwe corridor, the PLAN freedom fighters criss-crossed the surrounding villages, and finally reached Masida district. View more
2021-06-25Prof Makala Lilemba After the Masida encounter and indaba, the PLAN combatants headed for Nziba and Makanga villages. At Nziba, the ground for mobilisation for the liberation struggle was more fertile, as Moses Malamo Manowa’s father, Mzilikazi Manowa Madebela, was a resident there. It was partly to accomplish the liberation struggle mission and reunion with the father. View more
2021-07-02Prof Makala Lilemba In many political discourses and pronouncements of heroes and heroines who sacrificed their lives for the Namibian liberation struggle, no one is always mentioned; despite the fact, these villages had their share in freeing the country. View more
2021-07-09Prof Makala Lilemba In the early 1960s, there was influence at work not favourable towards the South African government, spearheaded by the political activists yearning for freedom and independence. View more
2021-08-04Prof Makala Lilemba There is an impression purported by scholars and other nationals in the Zambezi that the region is in an identity crisis. Furthermore, some scholars subscribe to the notion that the inhabitants have been oppressed by the Luyanas, but contrary to this perception is the reality that the Zambezi people are of Luyana stock and there are clear family links. View more
2021-08-13Prof Makala Lilemba The establishment of a museum in the Zambezi region is long overdue. This process can be blamed on the residents and the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. View more
2021-08-20Prof Makala Lilemba It was not destined for Adam and Eve to remain silent in the Garden of Eden even after their fall from grace, but they were allowed to respond to their wrongdoing. However, many institutions today prohibit their workers from expressing themselves freely. View more
2021-08-30Prof Makala Lilemba Namibia has been regarded as the brainchild of the United Nations, and at the same time hailed as one of the best democracies in the world. That is partly true, despite the fact that it took seven decades for the world body to successfully implement the Independence of the country. View more
2021-09-10Prof Makala Lilemba In his Muzokumwe Public Lecture 8, Prof. Joseph Diescho, the distinguished Namibian scholar, castigated the youth of Kavango East and Kavango West for failing to take up developmental responsibilities and bemoaned the demeaning unrepresentative situation of the regions in government key positions, despite being instrumental in winning votes because of their large numbers. View more
2021-09-17Prof Makala Lilemba Progressive education as a product of the philosophy of progressivism insists on a curriculum of life experience. View more
2021-09-24Prof Makala Lilemba The party list system simply entails picking members of parliament as per number of seats a particular political party scooped in an election. Each political party is required to submit a list of its members picked at an electoral college. View more
2021-10-01Prof Makala Lilemba During the colonial period, schools in Namibia were used as agents and tools of manipulation, exploitation and oppression in trying to perpetuate the notion of white supremacy. View more
2021-10-08Prof Makala Lilemba For many years, debates and renunciations persisted among Western and African philosophers about the absence of an African philosophy. View more
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