"The inevitable pipeline into exile" : Botswana's role in the Namibian liberation struggle
Material type: TextPublisher: Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2012Copyright date: �2012Description: 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographsISBN:- 9783905758290
- SWAPO
- South West Africa National Union
- South West Africa National Union
- SWAPO
- National liberation movements -- Namibia
- National liberation movements -- Africa, Southern
- Decolonization -- Namibia
- Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration
- HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General
- Decolonization
- National liberation movements
- Politics and government
- Botswana -- Politics and government
- Southern Africa
- Botswana
- Namibia
- 325.30968
- DT745Â .M55 2012eb
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Botho University Botswana Open Shelves | Education | 325.30968 MUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BU-LIB26048 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The role played by Botswana in various southern African liberation struggles has previously been neglected in historical studies. The country's politics of support and mobilisation early on in Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa proved crucial for the formative period of both nation states. Botswana's difficult and contradictory position as neighbour of the South African apartheid state and colonial power in Namibia are carefully dealt with, as are the challenges faced by the fragile Namibian refugee networks and liberation movements, SWANU and SWAPO, operating in Botswana fo.
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