Namibia after President Hage Geingob (1941-2024)

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dc.contributor.author Melber, Henning
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T09:15:07Z
dc.date.issued 2024
dc.description.abstract On 4 February 2024, Namibia’s President Hage Geingob lost his short battle with cancer. His second five-year term in office would have ended on 21 March 2024. Following Sam Nujoma (1990–2005) and Hifikepunye Pohamba (2005–2015) as third Head of State, he was the first of the veterans to depart from this world. A member of the first ‘struggle generation’, he nevertheless was an ‘outlier’. He represented the liberation movement SWAPO (South West African People’s Organisation) from the mid-1960s at the United Nations while also studying Political Sciences, obtaining a BA at Fordham University and an MA at The New School. In 2004, he added a PhD at the University of Leeds to his academic credentials with a thesis on state formation in Namibia. From 1975 onwards, he was the only Director of the United Nations Institute for Namibia in Lusaka. In mid-1989, he returned from exile during the transition to independence under UN supervision, overseeing SWAPO’s election campaign. He chaired the elected Constituent Assembly and was largely responsible for the adoption of the normative framework in February 1990 as the last step to Independence (21 March 1990). en_US
dc.description.department Political Sciences en_US
dc.description.embargo 2025-10-18
dc.description.librarian hj2024 en_US
dc.description.sdg None en_US
dc.description.uri http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ctrt20 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Henning Melber (2024) Namibia after President Hage Geingob (1941-2024), The Round Table, 113:2, 192-193, DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2024.2333203. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0035-8533 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1474-029X (online)
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96831
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge en_US
dc.rights © 2024 The Round Table Ltd. This is an electronic version of an article published in The Round Table, vol. 113, no. 2, pp. 192-193, 2024, DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2024.2333203. The Round Table is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ctrt20. en_US
dc.subject Namibia en_US
dc.subject President en_US
dc.subject Hage Geingob (1941-2024) en_US
dc.title Namibia after President Hage Geingob (1941-2024) en_US
dc.type Postprint Article en_US


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