Namibia Conference 2022

Franciska Talita Bangarah

Talita Bangarah is an oral historian and activist from Gibeon, southern Namibia. She engages issues connected with the aftermath of the genocide, concerning specifically Nama and also San. She is the director of the Auta !Nanseb (Hendrik Wotbooi) Foundation.

Prof. Dr. Uwe H. Bittlingmayer

Professor of Sociology focus on Education, director of the research institute of the Jugendhilfswerk (Youth Aid Organization)

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Dr. Dag Henrichsen

Dag Henrichsen is a Namibian historian, with particular research interests in central Namibian pre- and colonial histories and in audiovisual archives. He has published widely on Ovaherero history in the 19th century. Since 1995 he has worked at the Basler Afrika

Bibliographien in Switzerland, the largest Namibia Resource Centre outside Namibia. He regularly teaches at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.

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Dr. Basilius Kasera

Dr. Basilius Kasera, lectures religious and moral education, religious studies and philosophy and applied ethics at the University of Namibia. He holds a Ph.D. from Stellenbosch University, with a focus on contextualization and conceptualization of post-apartheid social justice. His main interests are in moral philosophy, African philosophy, applied ethics, religion and public dialogues, political theology, contextual theology, and systematic theology. 

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Prof. Dr. Henning Melber

was Director of the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek (1992-2000), Research Director at the Nordic Africa Institute (2000-2006) and Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2006-2012), both in Uppsala/Sweden, and remains affiliated to both institutions. He is Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria and the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Commonwealth Studies/University of London and the current President of the European Association for Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI).

Dr. Hertha Pomuti

Dr Pomuti completed her PhD in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Educational Sciences, School of Education at the University of Namibia. She worked as a director of the National Institute for Educational Development (NIED), an institution which is responsible for curriculum design and development for basic education in Namibia. Dr Pomuti’s areas of expertise are teacher education, policy analysis, leadership and management, curriculum design and development. She has served on different committees and governing bodies in public and private sectors and contributed to the body of knowledge through published articles in the areas of teacher education, education management and leadership and education policies.

Dr. Charmaine Villet

Charmaine Villet completed her Ph.D. studies in Curriculum and Instructional Leadership at Ohio University in the USA. She teaches in the Department of Applied Educational Sciences in the School of Education at the University of Namibia. Charmaine participated and led prominent studies on educational reform and transformation with the World Bank, UNESCO, the EU, the AU and in Namibia and the SADC region. She served as the co-chair of the International Taskforce on Teachers for Education 2030/UNESCO from 2016 – 2018 and heads the sub-cluster on Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education under the African Union’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa/ CESA 2016-25 as articulated in the African Union’s vision of Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want.