Joseph Diescho
Joseph Diescho | |
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Born | April 10, 1955 |
Occupation(s) | Writer, political analyst |
Joseph Diescho (born 10 April 1955[1]) is a Namibian writer and political analyst. In 1988, he wrote Born of the Sun, the first novel by a native-born Namibian author.[2]
Biography
Born in
He was an award-winning television announcer for the programme South Africa Now! on American public television. In 1997–8, he was the founder and presenter of The Big Picture, a weekly economic and political analysis programme on SABC 2.
His novel Born of the Sun was published in the US in 1988 and his second novel Troubled Waters was published in 1993. He is one of Namibia's very few native born novelists.
Diescho was the executive director of the Namibian Institute of Public Administration and Management (NIPAM) from 1 July 2013 until December 2015 when he was dismissed without a clear reason.
References
- ISBN 9780810879904.
- ^ Making a Literature: The Case of Namibia Author(s): Michael Chapman Source: English in Africa, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Oct. 1995), pp. 19–28 Published by: Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University
- ^ Joseph Diescho Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Namibia Institute for Democracy
- "Joseph Diescho". Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2002.
- Diescho, Joseph, with Celeste Wallin. Born of the Sun: a Namibian Novel. New York City: Friendship Press, 1988.
- Diescho, Joseph. Troubled Waters: A Novel. 1993. Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers.