Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari

Who is Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari?

Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari is a Namibian political scientist and public intellectual.

Hengari spent much of his early years in Windhoek under the apartheid system when Namibia was still administered as a colony of South Africa. As a high school student, he participated actively in the student protests of the 1980s against apartheid. After completing high school at A. Shipena High School in Katutura, he enrolled for B.A in Political Science and Sociology, with minors in History and German at the University of Namibia. After his studies at UNAM, he taught at his former high school for three years. After teaching, he went to South Africa where he completed his M.A degree in International Studies at the University of Stellenbosch. His Masters thesis at Stellenbosch focused on the regional economic partnership agreements between the European Union and the Southern African Development Community. While at Stellenbosch, he also served as a tutor in the Department of Political Science.

After completion of his M.A, he was asked by the former Prime Minister of Namibia, Hage Geingob to serve as chief of staff in the Office of the Prime minister.