THE VIEWS OF MTP TAAPOPI

Within the character and orientation of the national student’s movement, there has been for too long a time, fallacious, semantic and dogmatic, mistakes and blunders that have been an accepted culture that should be addressed and exposed, so as to rescind and relegate such conceptual faults and distortions, misinterpretations and misapplications and lack of political foresight to the dustbins of history. Yesterday, the 27 th July, in the afternoon, the Namibia National Students Organization (NANSO), Khomas Regional Executive Committee (KREC) released an unscientific, uninspiring, intellectually lazy and unpolished five seconds pedestrian statement, in response to counter and deter a constitutionally mobilized Annual Branch Conference informed by article 15 (9) (d), from ongoing at the University of Namibia (UNAM), main campus. It is therefore, the chief purpose of this cogent perspective to provide sober clarity, political and constitutional education, so as to lay at bay unco...

Our national beauty pageant marked 37 years of existence this month . A project that basks in the glory and privilege legacy of colonialism, apartheid and racism facilitated by capitalism that divides, discriminates, dominates and exploit. The implications of neo-colonialism  degrades, disempowers, misinterprets and appropriates black masculine and feminine identities. For centuries the experience of colonialization entails the dehumanization, disregard and devaluing of African people’s knowledge, roles, status and expression in the broader global popular culture. In different times and places, an elite class abuses, objectifies, sexualizes, and victimizes women, reproducing a hegemonic order of class, power, privilege and pleasure, through beauty pageants as the vehicle that parades women in bikinis, pitting them against each other for the honor of a sash/tiara. As is the standard unit, beauty is measured by contrasting and displaying female bodies, within a set class prescri...

Economic, social and political inclinations in Sub-Saharan Africa profoundly demonstrate the continent in multifold crises of development, with implications threatening not only the welfare and existence of broader segments of populations but the development base for future generations. As per Aina (1993), a crisis in context of development, refers to a multi-dimensional situation by which a structure begins to experience a serious breakdown in the process of reproducing itself to sustain its survival. In terms of the nature of Africa’s crisis, for Aina, is characterized by features ranging from Africa being conflict ridden, economic growth disproportionate to population growth, increasing environmental degradation, a socio-cultural malaise of the continent, and Africa’s complacent and stagnated domestic politics defined by multiparty democracies dominated by former liberation movements with centralized authoritarian tactics and patrimonial regimes branded by strong cliental syste...