Books By Margaret Jacobsohn - Author

Dr Margaret Jacobsohn is a Namibian writer, anthropologist and community-based conservation specialist. She is an authority on the social organisation and cultural economy of the semi-nomadic Ovahimba people of Namibia and Angola. Apart from numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of community-based conservation, she is the author of Himba: Nomads of Namibia (Struik, 1990). She has published short story fiction, including a story in Jacana Media's 2011 African Pens collection. Margaret has won some of the world's top conservation awards for her work, including the US Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa for grassroots environmental activists (jointly with Garth Owen-Smith), the United Nations Global 500 Award, WWF Netherlands' Knights of the Order of the Golden Ark and the Cheetah Conservation Foundation's Special Conservation Award.