South West Africa

(Placename) another name for Namibia

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Na•mib•i•a

(nəˈmɪb i ə)

n.

a republic in SW Africa: a former German protectorate; a mandate of South Africa (1919–66); gained independence 1990. 1,648,270; 318,261 sq. mi. (824,296 sq. km). Cap.: Windhoek. Formerly, German Southwest Africa, (1884–1919), South-West Africa (1920–68).

Na•mib′i•an, adj., n.

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Noun

South West Africa - a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa

Namibia, Republic of Namibia

Windhoek - capital of Namibia in the center of the country

Kalahari, Kalahari Desert - a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana

Namib Desert - a desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean

Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean

Herero - a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola

Namibian - a native or inhabitant of Namibia

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Later, he was appointed as school inspector, and later still, as Chief Inspector of Education in South West Africa" (p.24).As a white South African born intheformerGerman colonyof South West Africa, which had come under South Africa's administration as a consequence of German's defeat in the first World War, Barnard at first undertook duties to defend South Africa's occupation of South West Africa in the face of growing calls for European powers to end colonial rule in Africa.

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Against this background, the Finnish-born, Berlin-based artist Laura Horelli has revisited a later and more obscure chapter of German-Namibian relations: During the 1980s, motivated by the desire to distance itself from both colonial Germany's morally unpalatable legacy and West Germany's purportedly neocolonialist policies in Africa, the East German government financed and printed the English-language periodical of the South West Africa People's Organisation (swapo)--the Namibian liberation movement that successfully brought about the country's independence from South Africa in 1990, the same year that the GDR ceased to exist.

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" Storm petrels spend the winter months off the coast of South West Africa and begin their long journey back to their UK breeding grounds in spring.

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