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Namibia under South African Rule
`Trees never meet' is a proverb used widely in Namibia. It implies that unlike nature, which is stationary, people always move and connect with each other. `Trees never meet' was chosen as the fitting title for a project to bring together historians and social scientists studying the history of Namibia under South African rule. The collaborative project started in the early 1990s.
In 1994 a major history conference was held at the University of Namibia (UNAM). Now the results of the research have been published in a new book on Namibian history called Namibia under South African Rule, Mobility & Containment 1915-46, edited by Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace and Wolfram Hartmann.
The book brings together chapters on the history of different Namibian communities during those years in southern and central Namibia, in the northwestern Kaokoland and the North ('Ovamboland'). As suggested by...