Joseph Diescho

Joseph Diescho ( born April 10, 1955 in Diyogha at Andara, South Africa ) is a Namibian writer and political scientist.

Life

Joseph Diescho was born in 1955 in a village near the Roman Catholic Mission Andara in the Kavango region today. With the support of the church he attended the Rundu Secondary School and then the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, where he began to study law and political science. He interrupted his studies for a year and worked for the Consolidated Diamond Mines ( CDM) in Oranjemund. He participated in the civil rights movements, but then returned to Fort Hare where he acquired his first doctorate. He was one of the youngest doctors in the university's history.

Using scholarship he continued his studies in 1987 at the University of Hamburg in 1988 and continued at Columbia University in New York in the subjects of African Studies and Political Economy. Overall, he holds seven degrees, three master's and two doctoral degree. From the late 1980s until the early 1990s, Joseph Diescho was Professor of International Politics at the City University of New York.

He then returned to South Africa and took over numerous passages in science, research and television, including as a speaker and lecturer at UNISA Centre for African Renaissance Studies.

Works

• Joseph Diescho: Born of the Sun: A Namibian Novel. Friendship Press, New York, 1988, ISBN 978-0-377-00188-6.

• Joseph Diescho: Troubled waters: A novel. Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers, Windhoek 1993, ISBN 978-0-86848-810-3.

• Joseph Diescho: The Namibian Constitution in Perspective. Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers, Windhoek 1994, ISBN 978-0-86848-895-0.
• Joseph Diescho: Government and opposition in post- independence Namibia. Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung, Windhoek 1996, ISBN 978-99916-39-04-8.
• Joseph Diescho: Understanding the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD ). Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung, Windhoek 2003, ISBN 978-99916-751-8-3.