![]() ![]() ![]() As such, I explored theories on building, shaping, and transforming networks of power, especially with reference to Latour, and Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of an assemblage. This research aimed to establish how two community-based organisations (CBOs) in inner city Johannesburg used communication to build political power in their political networks. It is on this basis that her intellectual tradition is situated in what Pumla Gqola has theorised as African feminist imagination. ![]() By listening collectively and closely to her performance work, the study argues that Nanghili Nashima emerged as a trans-local figure who relied on transgression through her Oudano praxis to embody agency and radical imagination as practices of freedom. ![]() We unpack her mobile work and public life as defiant and subversive, therefore, speaking truth to multiple forms of power. This work offers critical engagement on themes of migration, sexuality and labour, challenging colonial, Christian, patriarchal and heteronormative norms, and systems in Ovawambo and African societies at large. The study mainly focused on the sound and video recordings currently archived at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation's Music Library and on YouTube. We discuss how her autobiographical public performance practices during apartheid and independent Namibia constitute feminism. This article studies Nanghili Nashima’s Oudano practices and public life. ![]()
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