Vida de Voss
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| Occupations | Feminist activist and Teacher |
| Known for | Sister Namibia |
Vida V. de Voss is a Namibian feminist activist, the director of the Namibian feminist organisation Sister Namibia, and a former lecturer in English literature at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. She now teaches English at Private School Swakopmund.
Education
[edit | edit source]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.[1] 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" .[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]De Voss was a lecturer in English literature at the Namibia University of Science and Technology from 2013 until 2021.[3]
She presently works at Private School Swakopmund where she teaches English to Grade 9 & 10 Students.
De Voss is the director of Sister Namibia, a feminist organisation and publisher of an eponymous magazine (first published in 1989), based in Windhoek.[4][5] De Voss has also been a guest speaker at the University of Namibia in Windhoek.[6] In March 2016, she spoke to an audience of hundreds of women at a conference at Windhoek's Safari Court Hotel to commemorate International Women's Day.[7]
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