Namibia

Gloria Kahamba: A Public Health Leader

November 25, 2024

Portrait of Gloria KahambaGloria Kahamba was recently named among the Top 25 Women in Management Africa and was featured in 9to5Chick’s Top 100 Career Women in Africa, which testifies to the leader she has become on the African continent. She was a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at UC Berkeley, earning her master’s degree in Public Health.

Gloria has always been passionate about healthcare, and...

Wayne Getz

Emeritus A. Starker Leopold Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Emeritus Chancellor's Professor, Professor in the Graduate Division
Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Machiko Tsubura

Research Fellow
Center for African Studies

Machiko Tsubura is a Research Fellow in the African Studies Group of the Area Studies Center at the Institute of Developing Economies in Japan. Her research interests lie in electoral and party politics, and governance in sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on Tanzania. Her current research themes are: 1) presidential nomination and management of factionalism in dominant parties in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania in comparative perspective; and 2) the influence of socialism on contemporary Tanzanian politics by employing the political settlement approach.