Fine Minds

Fine Music Radio — ‘Resistance to German Conquest in Namibia: The letters of Hendrik Witbooi’ by renowned novelist and critic JM COETZEE. This lecture takes as its focus Hendrik Witbooi, a dogged leader of resistance to the German takeover of what is now Namibia. The lecture shows how Witbooi’s letters provide absorbing insights into the internal politics of south-western Africa on the eve of conquest, as well as into contrasting conceptions of warfare, African and European, in the late nineteenth century. Born in 1940 in Cape Town, JM Coetzee was the recipient the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has received many other awards for his novels, including two Booker Prizes. His most recent works are the 2013 novel, The Childhood of Jesus, and a collection of letters entitled The good story: exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy. ‘Resistance to German Conquest in Namibia: The letters of Hendrik Witbooi’, will be the third in the series ‘Fine Minds’, a collaboration between FMR and The Centre fo