128pp., illus., paperback, Basel Namibia Studies Series 27, Basel, 2023
Lovisa Tegelela Nampala on "the social and ritual resources that contract workers and their families in colonial Ovamboland mobilised to provide forms of support and connection across great distances and absences ... through all the stages of their contract, including observances around workplace deaths."
Lovisa Tegelela Nampala is currently Principal of the Uukelo Combined School, Otunganga Circuit in the Ohangwena Region, Namibia. She holds a PhD in History from the University of the Western Cape for the thesis which comprises this book.