ABSTRACT
Some attempts to establish formalized and Westernized schooling began in precolonial Namibia when missionaries arrived and introduced Christian and moral education for blacks. South-West Africa, as a colonial-administrative unit, was the product of the military, political, economic, and cultural strategies of European colonial powers beginning in 1885 with the German Imperial government. To comprehend the colonized mind of the "profession," it is essential to remember that the growing enrollment in the Bantu schools produced an increasing need for teachers. These teachers represented the potential for social and cultural mobility. Southwest Africa ceased to be a colony of South Africa and became an independent Namibia in political and international terms. Nationally, Namibia became a representative democracy with a market economy and an education system. The consensus deal saved the ambitions of the new black upper class and the image of reconciliation in Namibia as both nonrevolutionary and nonracist.
