Joseph diescho biography
- Born in Andara, Kavango Region, Diescho attended Fort Hare University in South Africa where he studied law and political science.
- Joseph Diescho was born in Andara, in northern Namibia.
- Joseph Diescho (born 10 April 1955) is a Namibian writer and political analyst.
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“We’re Strangers in this Country”: Politics and Place in Modikwe Dikobe’s Dispossessed”
Andrew Martin Andrew Martin was born in 1964 to South African parents in the United States. In 1972 Andrew’s family moved to Cape Town, where Andrew completed his schooling. In 1988, Martin obtained a Bachelor of Social Science degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT). In 1990 Martin obtained the Post-Graduate Diploma in Librarianship and Information Science, also from UCT. In 1991-1992 Martin worked as a researcher for the Social History of Christianity project in the Religious Studies Department at UCT and in 1993 worked as part-time librarian at SACHED’s Cape Town office. In 1994 Martin moved to Grahamstown where he was appointed as an assistant librarian at the National English Literary Museum (NELM). In 1995, he was promoted into NELM’s research department, where he began work on a major bibliographic project, namely A Bibliography of Anglophone Creative Writing and Literary Criticism by Black South Africans 1800-1990. Martin’s main task in this project is to find this
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Joseph Diescho (born 10 April 1955) is a Namibian writer and political analyst. In 1988, he wrote Born of the Sun, the first novel by a native-born Namibian author.
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