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A Future ‘University of Namibia’?: the Rôle of the United Nations Institute for Namibia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Christian M. Rogerson
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Extract

In the making of a post-independence Namibian society, there are few areas of agreement between the contending parties in the contemporary struggle for power. Nevertheless, both the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the South African-backed Turnhalle groups have expressed the need to establish tertiary-level education in Namibia. The absence of a university and an associated intellectual community means that, in Richard Moorsom's words, ‘Namibian society lacks the essential means either of attracting social concern or transmitting basic information’. The ramifications of this are both sharply apparent and regrettable:

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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