Dr. Christian A. Williams: "Liberation Movement Camps in Southern Africa"

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[music] Speaker 1: On the go sprint lectures on African mobilities podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 1: Okay, hello and welcome to the seventh edition of our podcast series sprint lectures on African mobilities. My name is Joachim Lengelbach. I am postdoctoral researcher in the research section mobilities working on the project Africa and the global history of refugee camps focusing mainly on Eastern and Northern Africa in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties. In this edition we want to look into past struggles not only around mobility but also connected to it struggles for freedom from colonial oppression and white minority rule in Southern Africa. And camps did play an important role in the history of Southern African liberation movements in exile in the so-called frontline states. So I am really happy and glad to have Christian Williams here connected from Bloemfontein in South Africa who will give a lecture on the camps of liberation movements in Southern Africa. Christian Williams is a senior lecturer in the anthropology department at the University of Free State and a Humboldt fellow in the anthropology department at the University of Freiburg in Germany. His research examines histories of Namibians who lived in exile during Southern Africa's anti-colonial struggles and draws from his doctoral training in both anthropology and history. He published a monograph on SWAPO's exile camps with Cambridge University Press in two thousand fifteen and is now preparing a new book that explores the interplay between personal religious faith and anti-colonial exile politics through a Namibian refugee past. To continue working on this he will move to Freiburg in July hopefully if it will work out for the second part of his Humboldt fellowship. From his many publications I just want to highlight one most recent that was last year Christian edited a forum on African refugee history in the African Studies Review and apart from the editorial which gives a great… Read the full text about 5,509 words

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