Caroline A Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 457925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline A Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline A |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6538-981X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Faith and Liberation in Tanzania: An Historical Ethnography of Salatiel Ailonga’s Bible
The Way Home: Memories of a South African Exile
The Way Homeis a memoir written by South African political activist and former exile, Morley Nkosi. The book is organised around Nkosi’s childhood and early adulthood in South Africa(Part One), his flight from South Africa in 1960(Part Two), and his more than three decades in exile, most of which he spent studying and advancing an academic career in the United States (Part Three)
Remember Mboroma? Narrating a fragmented exile past via UNHCR and SWAPO camps
This article traces how Namibians, once affiliated with the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO, remember violence perpetrated on them while detained at Mboroma Camp in mid-1970s Zambia. The article begins with an account of a Mboroma commemorative event held in Windhoek on 5 August 2012, before presenting context for this event and how it has subsequently been remembered. Context includes a narrative of SWAPO’s 1976 Crisis and discussion of how m…
On South(ern) Africa’s revolutionary families
Paul Landau's Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries is a remarkably detailed and innovative take on a key moment in South Africa's liberation history.The book immerses the reader in the social world of a group of anti-apartheid activists during the early 1960s, tracing how the thinking of Nelson Mandela and his ANC Youth League contemporaries -referred to here and in the text as "the revolutionaries"evolved from the mass shooting at Sharpeville …
Injury characteristics in Norwegian male professional football: A comparison between a regular season and a season in the pandemic
The Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic forced the Norwegian male premier league football season to reschedule, reducing the fixture calendar substantially. Previous research has shown that a congested match schedule can affect injury rates in professional football. Therefore, we aimed to investigate whether the Norwegian premier league teams suffered more injuries in the more match congested 2020 season than in the regular 2019-season. We…
Defining and aiding “the Namibian refugee”: A history of the Chaplaincy to Namibians in Exile, 1974-76
This article presents a history of the Chaplaincy to Namibians in Exile, focused on how the Chaplaincy’s first leader, Salatiel Ailonga, and his Finnish missionary wife, Anita Ailonga, defined and aided “the Namibian refugee.” The article discusses how Southern African liberation movements and host governments generally used the term “refugee,” before tracing the Ailongas’ particular intervention on behalf of displaced Namibians in mid-1970s Zamb…
Dissident Refugees: A History of 200 Namibians in Zambia, 1977-1989
To date, scholarship on Southern Africa’s exile history has maintained a largely national focus, organised around liberation movements and their narratives. Nevertheless, many exile experiences do not fit neatly within this frame. This article examines such experiences through 200 Namibians who lived in Zambia during the late 1970s and 1980s. These Namibians were among the guerrilla soldiers whom SWAPO detained during its internal crisis of 1976.…
African Refugee History
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SWAPO's Struggle Children and Exile Home-Making: The Refugee Biography of Mawazo Nakadhilu
Mawazo Nakadhilu is a former refugee born to a Namibian father and a Tanzanian mother near Kongwa, Tanzania, in 1972. Her biography illuminates how people have made homes in Southern African exile and post-exile contexts. Williams traces Mawazo's story from her Tanzanian childhood through her forced removal to SWAPO's Nyango camp to her "repatriation" to Namibia. In so doing, he highlights tensions that have not previously been addressed between …
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention by Kelly Oliver
Reinhart Kößler and Henning Melber. Völkermord—und was dann? Die Politik deutsch-namibischer Vergangenheitsbearbeitung
As the title of Reinhart Kößler and Henning Melber’s Völkermord—und was dann? Die Politik deutsch-namibischer Vergangenheitsbearbeitung (Genocide—and Then What? The Politics of German-Namibian Dealing with the Past) suggests, this book addresses the aftermath of genocidal violence that soldiers of the German Empire perpetrated on Africans inhabiting German South West Africa, now Namibia, during the early twentieth century. To that end, the text d…
The Namibian Independence Memorial Museum, Windhoek, Namibia
The Namibian Independence Memorial Museum presents a narrow history of Namibia, focused on the brutality of colonial rule and the triumph of anticolonial resistance via the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), its military wing, and its first president, Sam Nujoma. As such, the museum reflects recurring state-sponsored presentations of history in Namibia—a form of historical production that Terrence Ranger, in his reflections on early…
Education in Exile: International Scholarships, Cold War Politics, and Conflicts among SWAPO Members in Tanzania, 1961-1968
This article explores education in exile through a discussion of Namibians’ search for scholarships outside their national borders and of the locations where most studied abroad during the 1960s. These sites include Kurasini International Education Centre and Nkumbi International College, secondary schools established by the African-American Institute in Dar es Salaam and Kabwe, respectively, and Kongwa camp, the site in central Tanzania where th…
Exile biography and un-national history: The story of Kaufilwa Nepelilo
In the history of Namibia’s liberation struggle, Kaufilwa Nepelilo’s story is largely unintelligible. As one of hundreds of contract laborers to leave Namibia during the early 1960s in search of opportunities in postcolonial Tanzania, Nepelilo soon found himself living at Kongwa, the site of the first guerrilla camp granted to the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) and other liberation movements then supported by the Organization of…
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World
Contents: Preface, Caroline A. Williams Introduction: bridging the early modern Atlantic world, Caroline A Williams Codfish, consumption, and colonization: the creation of the French Atlantic world during the 16th century, Laurier Turgeon Negotiating fortune: English merchants in early 16th-century Seville, Heather Dalton Interlopers in an intercultural zone? Early Scots ventures in the Atlantic world, 1630a 1660, Douglas Catterall 'A people so s…
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, Products, and Practices on the Move
The Camp and the Postcolony
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National Liberation in Post–Colonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO's Exile Camps
This book traces the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) across its three decades in exile through rich, local histories of the camps where Namibian exiles lived in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola. Christian A. Williams highlights how different Namibians experienced these sites, as well as the tensions that developed within SWAPO as Namibians encountered one another and as officials asserted their power and protected their interests with…
If You Want Slaves Go to Guinea’: Civilisation and Savagery in the ‘Spanish’ Mosquitia, 1787–1800
This article offers an analysis of the written record of an oral statement of grievances delivered in 1798 by George II, king and principal chief of the Afro-Indian Miskitu nation, before Antonio de Echeverría, the senior officer in command of the small Spanish settlement of Río Tinto. Containing 44 articles and extending over four days, George's protest is used here as a lens through which to examine the ways in which the Miskitu exploited their…
Practicing pan-Africanism: An anthropological perspective on exile-host relations at Kongwa, Tanzania
This paper explores exile-host relations at Kongwa, where southern Africa's first guerrilla soldiers lived alongside villagers in rural, central Tanzania between 1964 and 1978. Drawing from the author's previous research on SWAPO's exile camps, recent publications about the ANC in exile and fieldwork conducted at Kongwa, the paper argues that Kongwa became a “pan-African community” in which inhabitants originating from eastern and southern Africa…
A History of Namibia
A History of Namibia. By MARION WALLACE with JOHN KINAHAN. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 451 pp. ISBN 9 780 2317 0194 5. Marion Wallace's A History of Namibia presents the first genera
Contesting Caprivi: A History of Colonial Isolation and Regional Nationalism in Namibia
Living Between Empires: Diplomacy and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Mosquitia
In June 1787, Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel de Hervías, on behalf of the Spanish crown, took possession from Major James Lawrie of the small British settlement of Black River (Río Tinto), marking the formal end of three decades of diplomatic wrangling over the existence of the British Superintendency over the Mosquito Shore (1748 to 1787). Within three years of Lawrie's departure, along with that of 537 British settlers and 1,677 slaves, the narrow …
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State: An Ethnographic Account of Namibia, by John T. Friedman
Introduction: "Thinking Southern Africa from "the Camp
Living Between Empires: Diplomacy and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Mosquitia
In June 1787, Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel de Hervías, on behalf of the Spanish crown, took possession from Major James Lawrie of the small British settlement of Black River (Río Tinto), marking the formal end of three decades of diplomatic wrangling over the existence of the British Superintendency over the Mosquito Shore (1748 to 1787). Within three years of Lawrie's departure, along with that of 537 British settlers and 1,677 slaves, the narrow …
African Refugee History
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Ordering the Nation: SWAPO in Zambia, 1974-1976
This article examines a conflict that occurred within the Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO, in Zambia between 1974 and 1976. It considers the conflict, sometimes misleadingly referred to as ‘the Shipanga Crisis’, from the perspective of the SWAPO-administered camps. Although previous studies indicate that the conflict manifested itself in these camps, they tend to depict the camps as a series of places where residents were influenced by indivi…
Education in Exile: International Scholarships, Cold War Politics, and Conflicts among SWAPO Members in Tanzania, 1961-1968
This article explores education in exile through a discussion of Namibians’ search for scholarships outside their national borders and of the locations where most studied abroad during the 1960s. These sites include Kurasini International Education Centre and Nkumbi International College, secondary schools established by the African-American Institute in Dar es Salaam and Kabwe, respectively, and Kongwa camp, the site in central Tanzania where th…
If You Want Slaves Go to Guinea’: Civilisation and Savagery in the ‘Spanish’ Mosquitia, 1787–1800
This article offers an analysis of the written record of an oral statement of grievances delivered in 1798 by George II, king and principal chief of the Afro-Indian Miskitu nation, before Antonio de Echeverría, the senior officer in command of the small Spanish settlement of Río Tinto. Containing 44 articles and extending over four days, George's protest is used here as a lens through which to examine the ways in which the Miskitu exploited their…
Practicing pan-Africanism: An anthropological perspective on exile-host relations at Kongwa, Tanzania
This paper explores exile-host relations at Kongwa, where southern Africa's first guerrilla soldiers lived alongside villagers in rural, central Tanzania between 1964 and 1978. Drawing from the author's previous research on SWAPO's exile camps, recent publications about the ANC in exile and fieldwork conducted at Kongwa, the paper argues that Kongwa became a “pan-African community” in which inhabitants originating from eastern and southern Africa…
SWAPO's Struggle Children and Exile Home-Making: The Refugee Biography of Mawazo Nakadhilu
Mawazo Nakadhilu is a former refugee born to a Namibian father and a Tanzanian mother near Kongwa, Tanzania, in 1972. Her biography illuminates how people have made homes in Southern African exile and post-exile contexts. Williams traces Mawazo's story from her Tanzanian childhood through her forced removal to SWAPO's Nyango camp to her "repatriation" to Namibia. In so doing, he highlights tensions that have not previously been addressed between …
Dissident Refugees: A History of 200 Namibians in Zambia, 1977-1989
To date, scholarship on Southern Africa’s exile history has maintained a largely national focus, organised around liberation movements and their narratives. Nevertheless, many exile experiences do not fit neatly within this frame. This article examines such experiences through 200 Namibians who lived in Zambia during the late 1970s and 1980s. These Namibians were among the guerrilla soldiers whom SWAPO detained during its internal crisis of 1976.…
Exile biography and un-national history: The story of Kaufilwa Nepelilo
In the history of Namibia’s liberation struggle, Kaufilwa Nepelilo’s story is largely unintelligible. As one of hundreds of contract laborers to leave Namibia during the early 1960s in search of opportunities in postcolonial Tanzania, Nepelilo soon found himself living at Kongwa, the site of the first guerrilla camp granted to the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) and other liberation movements then supported by the Organization of…
Student political consciousness: Lessons from a Namibian mission school
This ethnographic history offers insight into the political consciousness of students attending St. Therese, a Catholic secondary school in southern Namibia, during the mid-1970s. Although scholars have indicated events and trends that influenced the politicisation of students in Namibia at this time, local circumstance and perspectives are virtually unconsidered. This text offers such vantage points, illuminating how students, who were largely u…
Resistance and Rebellion on the Spanish Frontier: Native Responses to Colonization in the Colombian Chocó, 1670-1690
Hispanic American Historical Review - 79:3, August 1999
Trade, War and Revolution: Exports from Spain to Spanish America, 1797-1820
Remember Mboroma? Narrating a fragmented exile past via UNHCR and SWAPO camps
This article traces how Namibians, once affiliated with the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO, remember violence perpetrated on them while detained at Mboroma Camp in mid-1970s Zambia. The article begins with an account of a Mboroma commemorative event held in Windhoek on 5 August 2012, before presenting context for this event and how it has subsequently been remembered. Context includes a narrative of SWAPO’s 1976 Crisis and discussion of how m…
Adaptation and Appropriation on the Colonial Frontier: Indigenous Leadership in the Colombian Chocó, 1670-1808
This article explores the consequences for the native population of the Colombian Chocó of the emergence, over the course of the eighteenth century, of an elite of caciques and indios mandones or principales whose functions of powers far exceeded those of the warrior chiefs that had traditionally acted as leaders of their people. Appointed for the purpose of facilitating the collection of tribute and the supply of labour to European settlers, cac…
Society, Economy and Defence in Seventeenth-Century Peru: The Administration of the Count of Alba de Liste (1665-61)
Trade, War and Revolution: Exports from Spain to Spanish America, 1797-1820
Resistance and Rebellion on the Spanish Frontier: Native Responses to Colonization in the Colombian Chocó, 1670-1690
Hispanic American Historical Review - 79:3, August 1999
Student political consciousness: Lessons from a Namibian mission school
This ethnographic history offers insight into the political consciousness of students attending St. Therese, a Catholic secondary school in southern Namibia, during the mid-1970s. Although scholars have indicated events and trends that influenced the politicisation of students in Namibia at this time, local circumstance and perspectives are virtually unconsidered. This text offers such vantage points, illuminating how students, who were largely u…
Ni aniquilados ni vencidos: Los Emberá y la gente negra del Atrato bajo el dominio español, siglo XVIII
Adaptation and Appropriation on the Colonial Frontier: Indigenous Leadership in the Colombian Chocó, 1670-1808
This article explores the consequences for the native population of the Colombian Chocó of the emergence, over the course of the eighteenth century, of an elite of caciques and indios mandones or principales whose functions of powers far exceeded those of the warrior chiefs that had traditionally acted as leaders of their people. Appointed for the purpose of facilitating the collection of tribute and the supply of labour to European settlers, cac…
Opening New Frontiers in Colonial Spanish American History: New Perspectives on Indigenous‐Spanish Interactions on the Margins of Empire
Over the past decade, the frontiers of Latin America have received an important scholarly boost, thanks to the publication of a number of new studies – seven of which are discussed below – which have shifted attention away from the sedentary societies that the Spanish encountered in Mesoamerica and the Andean region to examine the protracted and difficult process whereby Spaniards incorporated, or attempted to incorporate, the mainly non‐sedentar…
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of St. Francis: Indian‐Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 ‐ by Steven W. Hackel
Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550–1782
Ordering the Nation: SWAPO in Zambia, 1974-1976
This article examines a conflict that occurred within the Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO, in Zambia between 1974 and 1976. It considers the conflict, sometimes misleadingly referred to as ‘the Shipanga Crisis’, from the perspective of the SWAPO-administered camps. Although previous studies indicate that the conflict manifested itself in these camps, they tend to depict the camps as a series of places where residents were influenced by indivi…
The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
This new translation of Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Milicia indiana brings to a general readership an important but little-known source written by a conquistador who participated in and sometimes led a succession of late sixteenth-century expeditions to secure the frontiers of Spanish America from incursions by pirates, rebels, and recalcitrant Indi-ans. A latecomer to the campaigns that brought wealth and a prominent place in the historical rec…
A History of Namibia
A History of Namibia. By MARION WALLACE with JOHN KINAHAN. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 451 pp. ISBN 9 780 2317 0194 5. Marion Wallace's A History of Namibia presents the first genera
Contesting Caprivi: A History of Colonial Isolation and Regional Nationalism in Namibia
Living Between Empires: Diplomacy and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Mosquitia
In June 1787, Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel de Hervías, on behalf of the Spanish crown, took possession from Major James Lawrie of the small British settlement of Black River (Río Tinto), marking the formal end of three decades of diplomatic wrangling over the existence of the British Superintendency over the Mosquito Shore (1748 to 1787). Within three years of Lawrie's departure, along with that of 537 British settlers and 1,677 slaves, the narrow …
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State: An Ethnographic Account of Namibia, by John T. Friedman
Introduction: "Thinking Southern Africa from "the Camp
If You Want Slaves Go to Guinea’: Civilisation and Savagery in the ‘Spanish’ Mosquitia, 1787–1800
This article offers an analysis of the written record of an oral statement of grievances delivered in 1798 by George II, king and principal chief of the Afro-Indian Miskitu nation, before Antonio de Echeverría, the senior officer in command of the small Spanish settlement of Río Tinto. Containing 44 articles and extending over four days, George's protest is used here as a lens through which to examine the ways in which the Miskitu exploited their…
Practicing pan-Africanism: An anthropological perspective on exile-host relations at Kongwa, Tanzania
This paper explores exile-host relations at Kongwa, where southern Africa's first guerrilla soldiers lived alongside villagers in rural, central Tanzania between 1964 and 1978. Drawing from the author's previous research on SWAPO's exile camps, recent publications about the ANC in exile and fieldwork conducted at Kongwa, the paper argues that Kongwa became a “pan-African community” in which inhabitants originating from eastern and southern Africa…
The Camp and the Postcolony
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National Liberation in Post–Colonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO's Exile Camps
This book traces the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) across its three decades in exile through rich, local histories of the camps where Namibian exiles lived in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola. Christian A. Williams highlights how different Namibians experienced these sites, as well as the tensions that developed within SWAPO as Namibians encountered one another and as officials asserted their power and protected their interests with…
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World
Contents: Preface, Caroline A. Williams Introduction: bridging the early modern Atlantic world, Caroline A Williams Codfish, consumption, and colonization: the creation of the French Atlantic world during the 16th century, Laurier Turgeon Negotiating fortune: English merchants in early 16th-century Seville, Heather Dalton Interlopers in an intercultural zone? Early Scots ventures in the Atlantic world, 1630a 1660, Douglas Catterall 'A people so s…
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, Products, and Practices on the Move
Education in Exile: International Scholarships, Cold War Politics, and Conflicts among SWAPO Members in Tanzania, 1961-1968
This article explores education in exile through a discussion of Namibians’ search for scholarships outside their national borders and of the locations where most studied abroad during the 1960s. These sites include Kurasini International Education Centre and Nkumbi International College, secondary schools established by the African-American Institute in Dar es Salaam and Kabwe, respectively, and Kongwa camp, the site in central Tanzania where th…
Exile biography and un-national history: The story of Kaufilwa Nepelilo
In the history of Namibia’s liberation struggle, Kaufilwa Nepelilo’s story is largely unintelligible. As one of hundreds of contract laborers to leave Namibia during the early 1960s in search of opportunities in postcolonial Tanzania, Nepelilo soon found himself living at Kongwa, the site of the first guerrilla camp granted to the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) and other liberation movements then supported by the Organization of…
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention by Kelly Oliver
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