nationality name birth_date article_title birth_name
namibian alfredo tjiurimo hengari 08 december 1974 alfredo tjiurimo hengari
 alfredo tjiurimo hengari
alfredo tjiurimo hengari

alfredo tjiurimo hengari -lrb- born 8 december 1974 in windhoek -rrb- is a namibian political scientist and public intellectual .
hengari spent much of his early years in windhoek under the apartheid system when namibia was still administered as a colony of south africa .
as a high school student , he participated actively in the student protests of the 1980s against apartheid .
after completing high school at a. shipena high school in katutura , he enrolled for b.a in political science and sociology , with minors in history and german at the university of namibia .
after his studies at unam , he taught at his former high school for three years .
after teaching , he went to south africa where he completed his m.a degree in international studies at the university of stellenbosch .
his masters thesis at stellenbosch focused on the regional economic partnership agreements between the european union and the southern african development community -lrb- sadc -rrb- .
while at stellenbosch , he also served as a tutor in the department of political science .
after completion of his m.a , he was asked by the former prime minister of namibia , hage geingob to serve as chief of staff in the office of the prime minister .
upon the resignation of the prime minister , he served as coordinator for the civil service college project for a few months before he left for france in march 2003 .
after following intensive french language courses at the université de franche-comté , he first completed a diploma in french history and civilisation at the université paris-sorbonne iv , before he proceeded to do an m-phil in international relations at the université paris 1 panthéon-sorbonne .
he is currently completing his ph.d in political science -lrb- specializing in international relations -rrb- at the université paris 1 panthéon-sorbonne .
his ph.d is focussing on the transformation of french and british strategies in conflict management in sub-saharan africa .
as part of his ph.d research , he was a research intern in 2007 at the department of peacekeeping operations at the united nations in new york .
hengari is also weekly political columnist for namibia 's largest independent english daily , `` the namibian '' .
he provides regular commentary for other newspapers in namibia such `` new era '' on political events and developments .
