Answer to Question #240191 in History for Ndilloh

Question

Briefly discuss SWAPO's policy on education in exile

Answer 1

This was education in exile, including a discussion of Namibians' hunt for scholarships outside of their country's borders, as well as the places where most of them studied abroad in the 1960s. The African-American Institute established Kurasini International Education Centre and Nkumbi International College in Dar es Salaam and Kabwe, respectively, as secondary schools, and Kongwa camp in central Tanzania, where the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) first guerrillas began military training and English and mathematics classes. Kurasini, Nkumbi, and Kongwa were important locales in SWAPO's exile landscape in the 1960s. They redirected previous discussions about education among Namibians and sparked internal conflicts within the independence struggle that reverberated for decades. The areas where Namibian exiles lived, as well as the circumstances in which they lived, influenced what "the Cold War" meant and how contending groups within SWAPO mobilized its lexicon.