Henock Tangeni Kankoshi (born 19 September 1965), is a

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

n politician. He served as governor of

Oshikoto Region Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto. Its capital is Omuthiya. The city of Tsumeb, Otjikoto's capital until 2008, and the towns of Omuthiya and Oniipa are also situated in this region. , Oshikoto had 112, ...

, succeeding

Penda Ya Ndakolo Jafet Penda Ya Ndakolo (born 23 March 1960 at Oshigambo) is a Namibian SWAPO politician and current governor of Oshikoto Region. He served as Ministry of Defence (Namibia), Minister of Defence from 2015 to 2020. After losing his position as mini ...

in 2015. When his term ended in April 2020, Ya Ndakolo became Oshikoto governor again. Kankoshi was born in

Onyaanya Constituency Onyaanya Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Oshikoto Region of Namibia. It had 13,474 inhabitants in 2004 and 11,434 registered voters . Its district capital is the settlement of Onyaanya. Politics Onyaanya constituency is tradit ...

and went to school in

Ondangwa Ondangwa (earlier spelling ''Ondangua'') is a town in the Oshana Region of northern Namibia, bordering the Oshikoto Region. Ondangwa was first established as a mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society (the FMS) in 1890. In 1914, it became ...

. He attended

Ongwediva College of Education The Ongwediva College of Education (OCE) was one of four pedagogical colleges in Namibia and also offered three-year undergraduate diploma courses in basic vocational education to elementary and high school teachers: the Basic Education Teacher Dipl ...

between 1984 and 1985 and became a teacher. In

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

Kankoshi was elected regional councillor for the

. He was subsequently selected to represent the region in the National Council. Kankoshi has been active in

SWAPO The South West Africa People's Organisation (, SWAPO; af, Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; german: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former ind ...

since before

independence Independence is a condition of a person, nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the statu ...

. He served as the party's regional coordinator in the Oshikoto Region from 2002 to 2004, and he served on the party's

central committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

. Kankoshi also wrote a novel, ''Ampundja ya Kula Nahe Ambambi Ya Putuka Nayina'' which was published locally.

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