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 Prof. Dr. Henning Melber, 2022 | |
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Henning Melber (born August 22,1950,in Stuttgart) is a German political scientist and sociologist. He is a German-Namibian and Swedish Africanist and political activist. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Melber grew up in Esslingen am Neckar and Leutkirch in Baden-Württemberg,Germany. He moved to Namibia in 1967 as a teenager and the son of German immigrants,and graduated from the German Higher Private School Windhoek in 1970. [5] In 1974,he joined the SWAPO liberation movement. From 1975 to 1989 he was banned from entering Namibia and until 1993 also to South Africa. After Namibia's independence (March 21,1990) he returned to Namibia. In 2000 he moved to Sweden. [6]
In the 1970s,Melber studied Political Science and Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He receive a PhD in 1980 at the University of Bremen with a thesis on School and Colonialism. From 1982 to 1992 he was a research assistant in the social sciences department at the University of Kassel. In 1993 he habilitated at the University of Bremen and was appointed lecturer in development sociology (venia legendi for development sociology). [7]
From 1992 to 2000 he was Head of the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek. From 1994 to 2000 he was chairman of the de:Namibisch-Deutsche Stiftung in Windhoek. From 1996 to 1998 he was also chairman of the Association of Namibian Publishers (ANP). In 2000,he joined the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet in Uppsala,Sweden. After that,he headed the Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation from 2006 to 2012,where he is currently still a member in an advisory capacity. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Since 2012 Melber has been an extraordinary professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Since 2013 he has also been an associate professor at the Center for Gender and Africa Studies at the Free State University (Bloemfontein) in South Africa. From 2017 to 2023 he was President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes ( EADI) in Bonn. [12] [13] Since 2015 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London. [14]
Melber was also a visiting scholar at the Cluster of Excellence:Cultural Foundations of Social Integration at the University of Konstanz (April/May,2018),Van Zyl Slabbert Visiting professor at the University of Cape Town (October/November,2017) and visiting scholar at Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (University of Bayreuth),(April/May,2016). [15]
Henning Melber is married and has one daughter.
Melber has published numerous books and several hundred contributions on Namibia's problems and history,as well as on other topics such as internationalism and racism:
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