[PDF] Treasures Of The Diamond Coast eBook

Author : Della A. Scott-Ireton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1461481783

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In creating interpretive strategies for maritime sites, archaeologists and resource managers often are required to think creatively to overcome challenges and problems. These issues include interpreting sites in inaccessible locations and extremely deep water, enabling and controlling access to fragile sites and restricted areas, monitoring visitor behavior, making information interesting to a wide audience, and creating opportunities for public engagement, among other concerns. Meeting Challenges presents cutting-edge interpretation and public education strategies for maritime resources, both on land and underwater, with emphasis on solving the unique problems often associated with presenting these fragile, limited-access sites as heritage attractions and on developing effective visitation and civic engagement opportunities. The examples presented ideally can serve as models for resource managers, archaeologists engaged in interpretation, and site administrators. This volume brings together a diverse group of heritage professionals to discuss issues they’ve encountered and to present ideas and case studies for adapting, improvising, and overcoming them.

Author : Victor Tonchi
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0810853981

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On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal colonial suppression by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, repressive apartheid racialism throughout the 20th century, and a prolonged armed liberation struggle, Namibians had the chance to choose their own leaders, develop a democratic political process in a free society, and to bring economic development and greater equity to their country. The Historical Dictionary of Namibia covers the history of Namibia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Namibia.

Author : Shipululo Amupanda
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 3906927466

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Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia enters into unchartered scholarly territory of illegal diamond smuggling at the largest diamond mining company in colonial Namibia-De Beers' Consolidated Diamond Mines of South West Africa (CDM). It details the underground activities of the natives (migrant workers) employed by the CDM and how these illicit activities accounted for rapid development in Owamboland. Beyond this account, the book takes on the deterministic 'natural resource curse' theory that equates natural resource endowments to a curse resulting in underdevelopment and sometimes conflict. It is argued and proven herein, from a decolonial standpoint, that such an approach is an oversimplification of the political economy of natural resources in Africa in general and Namibia in particular. The text also provides a contextual account of the contract labour system and details the symbiotic relationship between CDM and the colonial state before highlighting the remaining unanswered questions and areas of further research.

Author : Christopher Hope
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3906927229

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Why does Namibia's economy look the way it does today? Was the reliance on raw materials for exports and on the service sector for employment an inevitability? And for what reasons has the manufacturing sector - the vehicle for economic development for many now-high income countries throughout the 19th and 20th centuries - seen its growth held back? With these questions in mind, this book offers an extensive analysis of industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 1900, exploring their causes, trajectory, vicissitudes, context, and politics. Its focus is particularly on the motivations behind the economic decisions of the state, arguing that power relations - both internationally and domestically - have held firm a status quo that has resisted efforts towards profound economic change. This work is the first in-depth economic study covering both the colonial and independence eras of Namibia's history and provides the first history of the country's manufacturing sector.

Author : Christopher T. Ihekweazu
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1645304477

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Time Changes Everything By: Christopher T. Ihekweazu Mike Ike, was fresh from continental war and civil war was in the offing. To avoid military conscription, he relocated from an inner city to Ala City, the capital of D.C., where he accidentally met a glowing object in a human form that later, became his wife. Their relationship sent series of shock-waves across the city. People could not believed what they were hearing and began asking, "Why Mr. President? Why the nation's First Lady?” But what happened towards the end of their life made local, national, and international headline news. The nation's First Lady, who propelled the President to fame, wealth, power, and even saved him from going to jail, was divorced. While the President re-married, the First Lady remained faithful until her death. The President’s star began to dim. Although Jemimah-the-Beautiful, the nation's First Lady, became a bird without a nest, her beauty remained incorruptible regardless of age. Celebrities from the country and around the world thronged the nation's capital, just to have a glimpse of the epitome of beauty before their own death. The world was shocked and mankind, from that day on, began to realize and believe that truly in life, Time Changes Everything. After the death of the First Family and under the military command of General Ebenezer Joshua, Diamond Coast, the Switzerland of the continent evolved into utopian republics as a soothsayer had earlier predicted. Time Changes Everything is a novel that encompasses ... leaving the reader wondering why ...

Author : Nathan Munier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108879500

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Investigating state responses to the Kimberley Process, an ambitious international agreement meant to reduce the trade of conflict diamonds, this study looks at the political economy of resource-wealthy states in Africa to understand why some African states have higher levels of compliance and co-operation than others.

Author : Luregn Lenggenhager
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3839466393

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The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. This book brings together scholars from Namibia, South Africa, and overseas, as well as the knowledge and analysis from people living in the region. In concise chapters and short portraits, they discuss the region's past and present from a variety of perspectives.