Namibia—The First Postapartheid Democracy

Issue Date July 1994
Volume 5
Issue 3
Page Numbers 88-100
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About the Author

Joshua Bernard Forrest is assistant professor of political science at the University of Vermont. He spent 1993 in Namibia on a Fulbright faculty research fellowship and a grant from the American Philosophical Society. He is currently preparing a study of the public policy process in postindependence Namibia.

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