Kerina was a politician who co-founded almost every major political party in Namibia, who was involved in active lobbying at the United Nations as early as 1956 as a petitioner for what was then South West Africa. In 1953 he left what was then the SWA to study medicine in the USA. He did not graduate, but started political and legal studies in New York, Chicago and Oxford / Pennsylvania, where he obtained a BA degree from Lincoln University. Kerina received her doctorate from Pandjaran University in Bandung, Indonesia.
Although Kerina was an active party founder and has changed political fronts many times, despite the separation from temporary party comrades, he has always received respect and esteem on the political power stage. The contrast between the years of founding the Swapo party, which he personally promoted with Sam Nujoma and Andimba Toivo ja Toivo, and his role as a member of the National Council of the Democratic Gymnastics Alliance (DTA) couldn’t be greater. Despite the frequent change of front, President Geingob has now found words of praise on his death: The memory of the son of the Namibian earth should be preserved.
Kerina initially appeared as a petitioner at the UN on behalf and on behalf of the Herero Chief Council under Hosea Kutako, years before Swapo was founded. He got along with the chief council, then split up and made up again. He founded the Herero party NUDO (National Unity Democratic Organization), which still exists today, among several others. Over the decades he has been to the USA several times and has repeatedly visited SWA / Namiba before independence. Together with interested business people, he initiated investment and mining projects that never happened.
On the political level, Kerina is still celebrated as the founder of the new Namibia. He is said to have launched the name at the UN in consultation with Nujoma. Kerina’s own name is indelibly marked in the history of the founding of the state of Namibia. Eberhard Hofmann
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