African Studies
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
Call for Papers: Utafiti is inviting you to submit your manuscript – any topic in the humanities - for consideration in the next issues.
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The main issue in domestic policy during the year was the party congress of the former liberation movement and governing South West Africa People’s Organisation (swapo), which indicated likely leadership choices for the country’s next national parliamentary and presidential elections. A critical matter of domestic and international dimensions remained the disagreement over the German–Namibian Joint Declaration on the colonial genocide. The government’s voting behaviour in the UN signalled the ‘Go East’ trend and refusal to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Socioeconomic recovery from the recession remained slow. New mining and exploration activities, including the discovery of offshore oil and gas and rare earth metals, and the prospect of large-scale production of green hydrogen nourished hopes of becoming the continent’s energy hub.