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Tears Over the Deserts

von Jackson Kaujeua

Biography History Non-Fiction

ISBN

9991631216

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Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Jackson Kaujeua Tears Over the Deserts autobiography memoir Herero culture African history colonialism apartheid Namibia South Africa exile discrimination rural life coming of age traditional ceremonies music career resilience cultural heritage social justice political activism African literature 1960s Odendaal Commission personal narrative identity family childhood transition to adulthood historical context African diaspora indigenous peoples cultural transition Southern Africa.

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This is the story of the young Jackson Kaujeua - poet, singer, footballer, would-be priest. Jackson tells of his rural childhood herding goats and drinking omaere; of traditional Herero life and the ceremonies of circumcision and transition to adulthood; of his worlds of school and work; and the call of music that has charted his adult career. Brought up by his grandmother outside Keetmanshoop, Jackson and his family were forced to move in the 1960s to an area designated for Hereros under the Odendaal Commission. His life was coloured by the deprivations and discrimination of South African rule but his story is not one of defeat. Mischievous as a boy and alwayss landing in trouble, he fell foul of the security police as a young man through his refusal to accept the role of colonial subservience. Eventually this forced him to flee his home and go into exile. (cover blurb).