1. Youth participation

2. Early life

3. Writing career
     Political publications    Books  

4. Journal commentaries

5. Activism and arrest

6. References

7. External links

Youth participation

Kalimbwe has participated in African youth activism^[4] and was elected Student Representative Council President of the University of Namibia UNAM SRC.^[5] He was expelled from the University in 2017 after breaking into a cafeteria with other students to use it as a study area, claiming that there were not enough designated study spaces.^[6] He also took part in the FeesMustFall protests in which university students demanded a decrease in university fees. He was later arrested as a result of this campaigning.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

According to The Namibian, the student protests in Namibia are happening "against the backdrop of the Affirmative Repositioning youth movement occupying urban land, and the Landless People's Movement reclaiming ancestral land in Namibia; 'Rhodes Must Fall' and 'Fees Must Fall' protests by South African students in their quest to decolonise their universities."^[12]

Early life

Joseph Kalimbwe was born on 25 March 1993 in Ndola, Zambia. His mother was Florence Lubinda, a primary school teacher. She was born and raised in Northern Namibia at Katima Mulilo where her father worked as a social worker before moving to Zambia. His father was Donald Kalimbwe who worked between Rundu and Livingstone. His father died when he was 2 years old, and his mother died of cancer when he turned 11.

After the passing of his mother in 2005, Kalimbwe moved to live in with his uncle in Ndola. After high school, he attended the University of Namibia where he read political science. While at the university, he joined student politics and was later elected Student Representative Council President of the University of Namibia and obtained an honors degree in political science.^[13][14][15]

Writing in Persecuted in Search of Change he explains how he "wanted to change my surname". He writes to his late mother on the book's first page of how he is, "constantly thinking of changing my surname to yours as i see no reason of carrying a name of the man i never known and whose family I never met", in reference to his father who died when he was 2. He has also expressed his admiration to Solomon Mahlangu, John Lewis, Kenneth Kaunda, Sam Nujoma and Nelson Mandela’s need to change the world from its evils telling her "while I am very proud of the teachings you gave me, I am also very mindful of my own failings & hopes to find meaning in the world". In his publication with the Namibian Sun, he pointed Africa's inability to resolve poverty as a continent still "struggling to find its place in the world" saying:

Writing career

While he served as editor of a weekly political column in the Namibian Sun, Kalimbwe began writing his first book and publish political reviews in the paper. In 2018, he began writing his fourth book, A Fractured World: How irresponsibility led to 3rd World Economic Downturns aided by former Goldman Sachs and World Bank executive Dambisa Moyo on the Worlds Economy following the 2008 financial crisis.^[17] His publications include;

Political publications

• Youth investment: The lynchpin of a nation's success. Namibian Sun (13 May 2016)^[18]
• Trickle Down Economics Never Works. Namibian Sun (21 June 2016)^[19]
• Chinese Investments in Africa Unearthed. Namibian Sun (21 February 2017)^[20]
• The monopoly of SOEs: Costing Africa a place in the 21st century. Namibian Sun (17 November 2015)^[21]

Books

• Teenagehood & the impact of the West – 2015
• The Pain of An Empty Stomach – 2016
• Persecuted in Search of Change - 2017

Journal commentaries

From 2015, Kalimbwe began publishing political reviews in a weekly column called The Astute Conversation in the Namibian Sun. He was subject to public condemnations after a publication on China Africa Relations in which he called Chinese investors as parasites feeding on African blood. Chinese Ambassador to Namibia Qiu Xuejun stated that the publication was meant to tarnish China's relationships with Africa while the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees's Namibia coordinator and SWAPO party Namibia National Liberation Association Chairperson Nkrumah Mushelenga expressed support for Kalimbwe saying the Chinese take advantage of Africa's poverty.^[22][23][24]

Activism and arrest

Kalimbwe began activism at the University of Namibia where Namibian youth leader, Job Amupanda taught him.^[25]

During the Fees must fall movements in South Africa, Kalimbwe was advocating for Namibian government to scrape fees for poor students. He later was arrested in 2017 after a protest in Windhoek. His trial was postponed several times in a Windhoek Court without ever taking place. At his 10th appearance on 30 November 2018, the state found that the trial could not continue as there was no evidence and lack of state witnesses with the state advocating for the case's removal from court roll. Later that evening, New Era (Namibia) reported that the state had lost the case against Kalimbwe whose lawyers had promised legal action against the "unfair treatment" of their client.^{[26][27][28][29]}

References

External links

• [https://www.facebook.com/KalimbweJoseph Official Facebook]

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