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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | African Studies,Other Areas of History |
| Keywords | faith, liberation movement, biography, exile, refugees |
Current contact address
| Country | South Africa |
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| City | Bloemfontein |
| Institution | University of the Free State (UFS) |
| Institute | Department of Anthropology |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Gregor Dobler | Institut für Ethnologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Leila Koivunen | Department of History, Cultural History, University of Turku, Turku |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2019 |
Programme(s)
| 2019 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Christian Williams Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation: An Ethnographic Biography of Salatiel Ailonga. James Currey, 2025 |
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| 2024 | Christian Williams Liberation Movement Camps in Southern Africa. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press, 2024. |
| 2024 | Christian Williams SWAPO’s 1976 Crisis and Nordic Transnational Solidarities: The Ailongas’ Detainee Letters. In: Leila Koivunen and Raita Merivirta, Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations (1870–1990). Finnish Literature Society, 2024. 171-184 |
| 2021 | Christian Williams Defining and Aiding ‘the Namibian Refugee’: A History of the Chaplaincy to Namibians in Exile, 1974-76. In: Canadian Journal of African Studies, 55, 2021, 543-561 |
| 2020 | Christian Williams African Refugee History. In: African Studies Review, 63, 2020, 560-567 |
| 2020 | Christian Williams Dissident Refugees: A History of 200 Namibians in Zambia, 1977-89. In: Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 2020, 863-879 |
| 2020 | Christian Williams Nationalism in Namibia (Scholarly Review Essay). In: African Studies Review, 63, 2020, 927-937 |
| 2020 | Christian Williams SWAPO’s Struggle Children and Exile Home-Making: The Refugee Biography of Mawazo Nakadhilu. In: African Studies Review, 63, 2020, 593-615 |
| 2015 | Christian Williams National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps. Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| 2003 | Christian Williams Remembering St. Therese. Out of Africa Press, 2003 |