A Walk Down Memory Lane: The Hage I Remember

Henning Melber My first personal encounter with Hage happened in the early 1980s. At the time I was a member of the Namibia Project at Bremen University. My task was – with Nangolo Mbumba, then Deputy Secretary for Education and Culture, as my local counterpart – to conceptualise and draft a textbook for schools in the Swapo refugee camps (published later as Our Namibia – A Social Studies Textbook also by Zed Press and at Independence in a Japanese translation). The preparations included a visit to Nyango and stays at the UN Institute for Namibia in Lusaka. Hage as the…