Professor

Henning Melber

Institute: Nordic Africa Institute Uppsala
Other affiliation: Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria; Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein; Institute for Commonwealth Studies/Centre for Advanced Study, University of London
Research region: Africa

About

Henning Melber has been Director of the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek (1992-2000), Research Director of the Nordic Africa Institute (2000-2006) and Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2006-2012), both in Uppsala. He remains associated with both institutions as senior advisor/research associate. He is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria (since 2012) and the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein (since 2013), and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies/School for Advanced Studies at the University of London (since 2016). He is President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) since 2017.


Publications

Namibia after President Hage Geingob (1941-2024)

The Round Table
Citizenship Matters: Explorations into the Citizen-State Relationship in Africa

Forum for Development Studies
Colonial genocide and the German-Namibian ‘reconciliation agreement’

The Round Table
The Routledge Handbook of transregional studies

The Round Table
Why Namibia’s vote on Russia violates its foreign policy principles

The Round Table
Germany and reparations: the reconciliation agreement with Namibia

The Round Table
Explorations into middle class urbanites, social movements and political dynamics: impressions from Namibia’s capital, Windhoek

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
No Rainbow yet in Sight: Southern Africa under Liberation Movements as Governments

The Round Table
Covid-19 and Southern Africa

The Round Table
Namibia’s parliamentary and presidential elections: the honeymoon is over

The Round Table
Germany and Namibia: Negotiating Genocide

Journal of Genocide Research
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Policy Under Mnangagwa

Journal of Asian and African Studies
Zimbabwe’s continued isolation

The Round Table