Joseph diescho born of the sun

A fast-flowing novel with a compelling protagonist, Born of the Sun calls the colonial world to account and offers a hopeful new future....

This is the story of Muronga, a young man who has grown up in a Namibian village where his only contacts with the outside world have come from the local German.

Born of the A Namibian Novel [Paperback] [Jun 01, ] Diescho, Joseph and Wallin, Celeste Genres Africa Namibia Fiction Travel pages, Paperback.

A fast-flowing novel with a compelling protagonist, Born of the Sun calls the colonial world to account and offers a hopeful new future.

This novel starts in a typical African way: young man in a village, Muronga, is married and expecting his first child.

For years Paula and her father have dreamed and talked about trying to find the lost city of Atahualpa.

Joseph Diescho

Namibian writer and political analyst

Joseph Diescho
Born	April 10, Andara, Namibia
Occupation(s)	Writer, political analyst

Joseph Diescho (born 10 April ^[1]) is a Namibian writer and political analyst.

In , he wrote Born of the Sun, the first novel by a native-born Namibian author.^[2]

Biography

Born in Andara, Kavango Region,^[3] Diescho attended Fort Hare University in South Africa where he studied law and political science.

During his student days he worked against the apartheid system and was imprisoned in Peddie and East London. Whilst working for a diamond mine company he helped found a worker's union. In , he became a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University in New York City, where he completed his PhD in Political Science in His dissertation, entitled, "The Role of Education in the Politics of Control in Namibia: –," explored the relationship between politics and education in Namibia.

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