Snippets from the Audio Archive I - Libertina Amathila and Ruth Weiss

In this extract from an interview conducted by Ruth Weiss on
September 28th, 1979, the then “first and only” Namibian medical
doctor, Libertina Inaviposa Amathila (née Appolus), also known as
Libertine Amathila, talks about studying in exile and becoming a
doctor as well as women’s education, gender issues and life in the
Namibian refugee camps in Angola and Zambia. Amathila, who had fled
South African ruled Namibia in the early 1960s, became a
high-ranking SWAPO official. Ruth Weiss interviewed her most likely
in Lusaka where SWAPO had its headquarters in the 1970s.