Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation: An Ethnographic Biography of Salatiel Ailonga.

Born at a Finnish mission station in then South West Africa (SWA), Salatiel Ailonga was part of a generation of contract labourers who first imagined a multi-ethnic Namibian nation and who played a central role in liberating it from apartheid South African rule. Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation examines the interplay between Christian missionary work and anti-colonial nationalism through Ailonga's life, in the context of Southern Africa's liberation struggles and exile experiences du...