Biography
Born on 14 October 1972 in Ovamboland/ Namibia
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| 1976 | flees the country and stays in the refugee camp Nyango in Zambia | |
| 1979 | Asylum in the GDR together with 80 children from the refugee camps, housed in a SWAPO children’s home at the country mansion Bellin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
| 1985 | Relocation to a boarding school in Sachsen-Anhalt | |
| 1990 | Return to Namibia, lives in Windhoek/Namibia | |
| 1994 | Matric Certificate (Abitur) at the German High Scholl Windhoek
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| from 1995 | studies journalism in Windhoek | |
| since 2000 | editor with the German station of the state owned Nambian Broadcasting Cooperation (NBC) | |
| 2004 | Publication of the autobiographical account “Kind Nr. 95: Meine deutsch-afrikanische Odyssee”/ Lucia Engombe. Recorded by Peter Hilliges
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| 2008 | reading tour in Germany
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Bibliography
Kind Nr. 95 : meine deutsch-afrikanische Odyssee / Lucia Engombe. Aufgezeichnet von Peter Hilliges. 2004
Links
ARD online: Kulturweltspiegel
Information about the author and the book – on the occasion of a television broadcast on 31 October 2004
Berliner Zeitung
Article in Berliner Zeitung about the author and her book
