Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Role, Identity and Challenges of Youth – Talk
Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Role, Identity and Challenges of Youth – Talk
• Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Role, Identity and Challenges of Youth in Contemporary Society – Talk •
(postponed from 26 June 2026 to 29 June 2026)
Episode 1 of the talk series ‘Political Dialogues’
Information by the organiser, Landless People’s Movement (LPM) – Youth Command Element:
Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Role, Identity, and Challenges of Youth in Contemporary Society – Talk
Speaker:
Prof Heike Becker, Emeritus Professor, University of The Western Cape (LinkedIn Profile)
Moderator:
Simona Isaak (LinkedIn Profile)
Monday, 29 June 2026
18:00 – 19:00
Venue: Online – Teams
https://teams.live.com/meet/9399728814263?p=7ISvHVzD2RR6BNK6vY
Tap on the link or paste it in a browser to join.
- See the article “”Youth speaking truth to power”: intersectional decolonial activism in Namibia” (free PDF download) by Professor Heike Becker, published in December 2022 (last checked in June 2026).
- Note the “Windhoek Decolonial City Tour” of Hildegard Titus (offered in 2024 & 2025) in the ‘Events’ section of this website.
- Check the report “As Curt Falls” from 4 December 2022 by Martha Mukaiwa in the Namibian in the ‘Media Reports’ section of this website.
- See also the article of Sarala Krishnamurthy (Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at NUST; Profile on LinkedIn): Defined, or Disrupted? Investigating post-memory and transgenerational trauma in Herero Nama Genocide survivor family narratives, published in Eckl Häussler Akawa (eds.) (2024): An Unresolved Issue, which is freely available as a PDF download.
‘Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Role, Identity, and Challenges of Youth in Contemporary Society’. Invitation to Episode 1 of talk series ‘Political Dialogues’ on 29 June 2026, 18:00 CAT. Venue: Online – Teams.live.com. Organiser: Landless People’s Movement (LPM) Youth Command Element. Poster: WhatsApp post by LPM YCE