The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the following for their time and immeasurable support over the course of many years: In Namibia, the Khairabeb, Guidaooab, and Brandt families, and in the United States, Pat Strachan, Ellen Levine, Dantia MacDonald, Robert Preskill, David Krause, Melissa Kirsch, and Rhoda Kaplan Pierce. I am also grateful to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome for a generous fellowship.