David Kudumo Ausiku

I am Kudumo Amutenya Ausiku with two given names David and Lyangurungunda. I am a Namibian (former South West Africa) born at Mupini near the border of Angola and Namibia. I am not an academician with European knowledge but with past African insight. That means natural knowledge of how things come to be. In Namibia, I only completed standard six (6) in 1959 and caught up in politics against Apartheid System of former South Africa Government. Moving there and there, I learnt many things...See more

I am Kudumo Amutenya Ausiku with two given names David and Lyangurungunda. I am a Namibian (former South West Africa) born at Mupini near the border of Angola and Namibia. I am not an academician with European knowledge but with past African insight. That means natural knowledge of how things come to be. In Namibia, I only completed standard six (6) in 1959 and caught up in politics against Apartheid System of former South Africa Government. Moving there and there, I learnt many things including languages. As a result of that, I ended up acquiring basic knowledge of writing English words in alphabetical order from all my English-Rukwangali handwritten vocabulary books before I challenged grade 12 at Yukon College, Whitehorse where I live. My idea of compiling the Basic English - Rukwangali Dictionary from my hand-written vocabulary books I did, was to update myself not to forget my Rukwangali language, and to make this book available to many people, especially to the Rukwangali students who want to learn English. From this Basic English - Rukwangali Dictionary I also managed to compile many other educational dictionaries in different languages with the purpose of helping all students and ordinary people. See less