Abstract
Namibia emerged as a nation in 1990 when the territory then known as South West Africa gained its independence from South Africa after a protracted liberation war, and the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) became the new government. The liberation war took place largely in the north of the territory and SWAPO found its most important support base among the inhabitants of the former apartheid ‘homeland’ of Owamboland.1 The struggle for Namibian nationhood did not take place only in the bush. An ideological war was waged throughout the colonial period in which one of the most contested arenas was the meaning of terms like ‘tradition’ and ‘culture’.
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Fairweather, I. (2007). Heritage and the Production of Locality in North Namibia. In: Kockel, U., Craith, M.N. (eds) Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230285941_7
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