Memory, Identity, and the Stories We Inherit

Creative Writer & Decolonial Researcher | PhD, Binghamton | Fulbright Fellow | Memory, Memoir & Essays

I am a Namibian creative writer and researcher working at the intersection of creative nonfiction, memory studies, and postcolonial African literary history. Rather than treating research and creativity as separate practices, I create knowledge through literary forms, conducting auto-ethnographic investigations into historical trauma, archival materials, and family narratives to deepen my creative work. My doctoral memoir, Being When Meant Not to Be, examines the Herero and Nama genocide through personal narrative and intergenerational testimony. A Fulbright Fellow with a PhD in Creative Nonfiction from Binghamton University, I currently teach at the University of Namibia. I am completing a collaborative memoir documenting my father's life under apartheid.