Vida de Voss

Vida de Voss
Nationality	Namibian
Occupation(s)	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

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

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]

References

1. "Author". scholar.sun.ac.za. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
2. Vida, De Voss (6 November 2017). "The Identity Challenge in Toni Morrison's "Paradise"". iastate.edu. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
3. "Vida de Voss - Bayt.com". people.bayt.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
4. "Contact us". sisternamibia.com. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
5. "Vision". sisternamibia.com. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
6. "UNAM German Studies career day inspires students and employers". University of Namibia. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
7. "Namibia commemorates the International Women's Day: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung". www2.hss.de. Retrieved 6 November 2017.