26/10/2026
Guest Lecture by Dr Gertrud Boden, Oswin Köhler Archive, Institute of African Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt. 🇩🇪🤝🇳🇦
The Oswin Köhler Archive at the Goethe University Frankfurt houses the world’s largest collection of documents on the language and culture of the Indigenous Khwe people, most of whom live in Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park. The documents were compiled between 1959 and 1992 by Khwe sources and their scholar, the German Africanist Oswin Köhler. Over the past ten years, these materials have been further developed and adapted in collaboration with members of the Khwe community, resulting in a diverse range of resources designed to help younger generations of the Khwe learn their language and culture, and a database that accommodates Khwe concepts, voices, and norms.
📚 Host: School of Humanities, Society and Development, UNAM, in collaboration with the Embassy of Germany
📍 Venue: Language Multimedia Center, F350
📅 Date:Tuesday, 03 November 2026
🕰️ Time: 10h00 – 12h00
👉 for enquiries, contact:
Dr Martha Akawa-Shikufa
Senior Lecturer: History, Language and Literature Studies
University of Namibia
Tel: +264 61 206 3845
E-mail: [email protected]
University of Namibia (UNAM)
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