#29: #ComradeEditor, on life, journalism and the birth of Namibia.

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This episode spotlights our #FreeSpeak host Gwen Lister who discusses her recently released memoir, #ComradeEditor, with former colleague and guest host Graham Hopwood. Lister, one of Africa's foremost journalists, achieved global repute for opposing South Africa’s occupation of Namibia. Here she and Hopwood have a candid discussion about life in former apartheid South West Africa, her career in journalism and the start of the iconic independent newspaper, The Namibian. #ComradeEditor is available at the Namibia Media Trust’s office, the Book Den and Exclusive Books

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