Saima Nakuti Ashipala is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa and affiliated to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Namibia. She teaches history modules on the German and South African colonial periods and the process of decolonisation in Namibia and her research interests include diplomatic, mining and labour histories in southern Africa as well as solidarity with the liberation struggles in southern Africa. Her forthcoming publication is: Defending the Investment: Rössing Uranium and the Business of Decolonization in Namibia (Basler Afrika Bibliographien Basel, Switzerland).

Publications

C. Hill, and S.N. Ashipala. '"Follow the Yellowcake Road": Historical Geographies of Namibian Uranium from the Rössing Mine', Historical Social Research 49, 1, (2024): 32-54.

Ashipala S. N. 'Technical and Vocational Education and the Place of Indigenous Labour in the Mining Industry of Namibia, 1970-1990', Journal of Southern African Studies, 47, 1, (2021): 127-142.

Ashipala S. N. 'Sovereignty over diamond resources: (Re)-negotiating colonial contracts in Southern Africa' in Cultural Sovereignty beyond the Modern State: Space, Objects and Media, edited by Gregor Feindt, Bernhard Gissibl and Johannes Paulmann, (Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg) 2021, 65-86.