Vida V. de Voss is a Namibian feminist activist, the director of the Namibian feminist organisation

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, and a lecturer in English literature at the

Namibia University of Science and Technology The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), formerly known as Polytechnic of Namibia, is a public university located in the city of Windhoek, Namibia. Andrew Niikondo is its acting vice-chancellor. NUST was headed by the founding ...

Education

De Voss earned a master's degree in philosophy from Stellenbosch University in 2006, and her master's thesis was entitled, '' Emmanuel Levinas on ethics as the first truth''. In 2010, she earned a master's degree in English literature from Iowa State University, and her thesis was entitled ''The Identity Challenge in Toni Morrison's "Paradise" ''.

Career

De Voss has been a lecturer in English literature at the

since 2013. De Voss is the director of

, a feminist organisation and publisher of an eponymous magazine (first published in 1989), based in Windhoek. De Voss has also been a guest speaker at the

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in Windhoek. In March 2016, she spoke to an audience of hundreds of women at a conference at Windhoek's Safari Court Hotel to commemorate

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References

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