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Andimba Toivo ya Toivo: A Namibian Struggle Icon
Author(s): Heike Becker
- Publisher: HSRC Press
- Publication Date: April 30, 2026
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 210 pages
- ISBN-10: 0796927227
- ISBN-13: 9780796927224
Book Description
Heike Becker chronicles the life and legacy of Andimba Toivo ya Toivo (1924–2017), a towering figure in Namibia’s fight for freedom. Combining a concise biography with speeches, petitions, and other writings by ya Toivo (as well as the work of some of his comrades), Becker uncovers lesser-known chapters of the Namibian nationalist struggle and captures the enduring relevance of visions rooted in pan-African ideals and a global commitment to justice.
CONTENTS:
- The Legacy of Andimba Toivo ya Toivo.
- HIS LIFE.
- Born into a Divided Country.
- The South African Colonial Project.
- Contract Labor.
- A Colonial Soldier: World War II.
- Breaking Through a Sealed Door.
- Cape Town.
- A Nascent Liberation Movement.
- Petitioning the UN.
- Towards a Namibian Congress Movement.
- A Workers’ Movement.
- The Politicization of Brotherhood.
- Cooperation Among Anticolonial Movements.
- Battle over Urban Black Life.
- Mobilization in the Rural North.
- Armed Struggle.
- Arrests and the Terrorism Act.
- The Terrorism Trial.
- The Defense and the Accused.
- Tortured by the Regime.
- Soliciting International Support.
- Ya Toivo Speaks from the Dock.
- Robben Island.
- Release.
- In Exile.
- Return to Namibia.
- HIS VOICE.
- 1950s and Early 1960s: Namibia and the United Nations.
- Petition to the UN by ya Toivo and 80 Others, August 1957.
- Letter to the UN by ya Toivo, September 1958.
- Hot Welcome for UN Committee in Ovamboland, Article by Herman Ja-Toivo.
- 1967/68: The Pretoria Terrorism Trial.
- Speech from the Dock by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo, February 1968.
- 1980s: After Robben Island.
- First Interview After Release from Robben Island, March 1984.
- Ya Toivo Talks: Efforts to Liberate Country Will Continue, March 1984.
- SWAPO Address to the Opening Session of the Anti-Apartheid Movement National Convention, London, June 1984.
- Opening Statement to the Conference on Namibia: 100 Years of Foreign Occupation, 100 Years of Struggle, September 1984, London.
- Speech to the UN General Assembly, 39th Assembly, 1984.
- After Namibian Independence.
- Farewell Speech by ya Toivo on the Occasion of His Retirement from the National Assembly, March 2005.
- A Message from Andimba Toivo ya Toivo on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, August 2014.
- Other Voices.
- Tangeni Amupadhi: Herman Andimba Toivo ya Toivo at 90.
- Julia Mbida, as Told to Hileni Nembwaya.
- His Teacher Recalls: Ya Toivo Gave Me Namibia.
- Hage Geingob, President of Namibia, on the Occasion of the National Memorial Service for ya Toivo, 23 June 2017.
- Eulogy to Cde. Herman Toivo ya Toivo: A Life of Distinguished Service.
- HIS LEGACY.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Heike Becker is professor emerita of social and cultural anthropology at the University of the Western Cape.
