Oshakati · 2001 · citedThe Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Neshani Andreas
The world of the novel is Owamboland, the flat communal farmland of far northern Namibia, where homesteads sit among the mahangu fields and the year turns on the rains. The narrator watches her friend's marriage and widowhood in the village of Oshaantu, while the regional towns near Oshakati draw the men away to wage work. The map runs from the fictional village out across the real Owambo lands to Oshakati and Ongwediva.
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