What Happened During Exile

Johanna Shinana
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My podcast is related to valentina's book the exile child where people share experience of how the themes in the book relate to their story as namibians.

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  1. 06/13/2021

    Incomparison to valentina's book titled the exile child what do you think abouttge themes in exile

    What was happening in the setting of the exile child. I have conducted an interview with Mrs Diana Shakumu a fourth year student at University of Namibia and Mr Timoteus Mukumangeni on how the themes related to the book of valentina titled " the exile child" are and how they appear to say about namibian society during the setting of the book. The themes we had at hand were wide range like love and betrayal, motherhood and sacrifice, creation and request for faith, loss of communication and lastly consolation which is the common condition of exile and yearning to belong that we connect that we connect the human. Mrs Shakumu shared with us that she is not really interested interested in history in that she has been told similar things that I like the themes of the book in the themes of the book she has been told that her parents were in Camps and were eating sleeping and schooling together with some other people and all major routines. She has mentioned that they were allocated to this for everyone and centrally organised cultural and sports activities. They worked together the words creating obedient movement and focusing on the energy. She also mentioned that they were all from same parents so they were more like sisters and brothers. Since she only spoke about the sweet side of the story I was curious to know what else was aligned with betrayal and Mr Timoteus Mukumangeni said " when it comes to themes like betrayal I was told by my my uncle that his friend was betrayed by his comrades which culminate into imprisonment in the omalambo the hidden PHS in Lubango,Angola. In which he was cast and left to die but as for my uncle he tried all again and escaped in another scenario when my grandmother was going into exile her friends left her in the middle of the forest where she had to continue alone because others feared for their lives but she went into exit gracefully meaning that a lot of people have to go into example only if you complete the mission." When it comes to betrayal a journalist werner menges said," an important and compelling story dealing with a shameful part of namibian history that deserve not to be forgotten." We get it onto how mothers survived such a hard time with their children pregnant or maybe breastfeeding. Mrs Shakumu said," my grandmother is one of the women who took part in the struggle and told her story with courage and dignity. She always say that when they were in exile they cannot claim free liquid milk for themselves when pregnant no free formula milk for their babies they used to find fruits that have lots of water to feed their babies pregnant women were forced to eat intorelable food because they were afraid to affect their babies if they did not eat properly." She further its that women were very in bed areas when it rains the wall gets wet and smells badly some rushes from the wall falls onto the baby's body and to avoid this they cover their babies with their clothing women have made many sacrifices to save their babies that's just to mention a few. Mr Timoteus mentioned that people in exile have been requesting for faiths from churches they want Christians to teach him about the word of God and find hope. They have said that parents were afraid when their kids went to exile because they were scared to not see them again lastly we rounded off to make listeners understand that the liberation struggle for Namibia came from hard work it did not come on a silver plate in the Caribbean you should be grateful and they should respect our freedom fighters because if they were not there we couldn't be celebrating independence. Lastly there are encouraged not to forget and to continue teaching the next generation about the past historical events keep in to keep the history in the books or on the films so that the next generation would know how our freedom fighters fought for our independence

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My podcast is related to valentina's book the exile child where people share experience of how the themes in the book relate to their story as namibians.

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