Frantz Fanon is one of the well-known decolonial scholars. He has developed the concept of the zone of nonbeing which discusses the positionality of the colonised and oppressed and oppressed people in general and black people in particular. The notion of the zone of nonbeing has resurfaced in decolonial discourses in Southern Africa including Namibia.
INTRODUCTION The notion of zone of nonbeing has been shown in the decolonial discourses in Southern Africa notable and Namibia included where we see scholars and Pan-Africanist using both diplomacy and violence to gain independence from former colonial masters and to make possible the end of zones. These zones comprise of zone of being and zone of nonbeing, in the zone of being are white people considered to be human and in the zone of nonbeing are black people considered to be inhuman, objects in fact. Notwithstanding that this classification of people into zones does not only include the race issue, it goes to the depths of social status, tribal differences or even just not being from the same family which can be said in simpler terms as nepotism. The zone of none being has been depicted in Namibia in both pre and post-independence eras. The following essay will further elaborate on this issue bringing out evidence to pivot the ideas that will be raised where there is a depiction ...