Shoprite workers in Namibia have hit the picket line after one woman’s suicide due to grueling conditions, including bullying and sexism in the workplace.
Author Archives: Namupa Shivute
Namupa Shivute is a storyteller, researcher and freelance journalist from Namibia.
Navigating through history, arts and education, Namupa explores Blackness and Queerness in the sociopolitics of Africa and its diaspora. They tell marginalised stories through various media e.g. literature, film, music, community-based arts and workshops. As a thinker, Namupa’s provides a political and spiritual blend of insights gathered through personal Pan-africanist and socialist experiences, the 90s Hip Hop era, with influences from Afrofeminism, Black Consciousness, and the Queer and Abolitionist movements.
Their work has been featured in local, continental and international media outlets like Sister Namibia, Observer Connect, Southern Times, Sweden’s Ottar magazine (with Swedish translation), Germany-based Unbiasthenews and the USA’s BlackWomenRadicals.