Henning Melber

Henning Melber (born 1950 in Stuttgart) is a German-Namibian political scientist and African studies scholar. He moved to Namibia in 1967 as the son of immigrants and joined the anti-colonial liberation movement SWAPO in 1974. He studied political science and sociology at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate and habilitation from the University of Bremen. In the 1990s, he directed the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit in Windhoek. He later served as research director at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala and, until his retirement, as director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. His research has focused on Africa’s colonial history, the genocide of the Herero and Nama, and Namibia. His books include “Deutschland und Afrika – Anatomie eines komplexen Verhältnisses” (2019).