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From Right to left, Honourable Minister John Mutorwa, Prof Anicia Peters (PVC:RID), Prof Kenneth Matengu (VC, UNAM), and
                                   Dr Kletus Likuwa (Author) at the book launch on 07 September 2021




       their  vast knowledge  and  experience  cooperation  of  the  DLA  Marbach  and
       were also invited to form part of various   UNAM towards enhancing cooperation
       national committees in the country such   between    the    Baden-Württemberg
       as the case with a young and vibrant     and Namibia in their  joint cultural  and
       researcher,  Mr  Mwetulundila,  who  was
       in 2019 nominated to  serve on  the      academic projects.
       national technical committee of “Leave
       No One Behind” (LNOB), an overarching  Dr Shiweda also stated that one of the      Mr Martin Shapi

       objective of the 2030 Agenda. With the  senior researchers from the division,  Dr   MRC is a Robust and Resilient
       participation of Mr Mwetulundila, the    Likuwa, received a special invitation     Research Arm of UNAM which
       LNOB technical committee established     from  the  German  foreign  office  as    is committed to put UNAM on
                                                                                          the international map in terms of
       a standard on how  to measure the                                                  impactful scientific publications
       “Leave No One Behind” phenomenon         the  only  participant from  Africa  to   and human capital production
       in the  Namibian context  under  the     participate in a memory project in 2019   with emphasis on state of the
                                                                                          art scientific output. I have
       auspices  of the Namibia Statistics      on  “How  Germany  should remember        professionally learnt and grown,
       Agency (NSA).                            their 20th century History.” The visit by Dr   and I am still learning and
                                                                                          growing whilst serving at MRC
                                                Likuwa took him to various historic and   and I am exceedingly grateful!
       The HoD states that there were some      heritage  sites of  Germany where  he
       colleagues in her  department  such as   made meaningful contributions.
       Prof  Indongo  who  was appointed  the
       Lead Researcher for Adolescent Health
       Service Barriers Assessment, and the     In December 2020,  the SSD with the
       same colleague attended a Regional       support of researchers from divisions of
       Training Workshop on Methodology  in  MRC, organised the launch of a history

       Lusaka, Zambia, from 24 to27 September  book entitled “Voices from the Kavango:    Dr. Napandulwe Shiweda
       2019.  Furthermore,  Dr Shiweda herself,   A study of the Contract Labour System in
       participated and  presented  a paper     Namibia, 1925-1972.” The event invited    Being at MRC has offered me a
       at  a  workshop titled “Namibia –  Facts                                           chance to grow academically.
                                                                                          I managed to publish a number
       and  Fiction:  Colonial ideologies  and   Honourable  Minister John  Mutorwa  in   of articles and supervise a few
       images of  Africa  in Literature  and    his capacity as a former History teacher   more students. My research
       Public” at Deutsches Literaturarchiv     and writer,  and  it further  convened    network has also expanded
                                                                                          tremendously offering more
       (DLA) in Marbach and discussed further  participants from different walks of lives.   opportunities.



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