Ndalulilua Iyambo (formerly known as Anita) says hello

I Skyped with Ndalulilua this morning in between her classes in social work at the University of Namibia!  So nice to see her face and hear her beautiful voice.  She has gone back to using her “real” name; most of you will remember her as Anita Isaacs, but now she is Ndalulilua Iyambo.  She says she is not sure what her father was thinking when he named her, but Ndallulilua (day-lu-lee-oola) means “I am fed up” in Oshiwambo.  Yyambo is her maiden surname that she is now using instead of Isaacs.

I first met Ndalulilua when J. McMerty and I traveled to Oshakati, Namibia in the summer of 2003.  The interview we did with her became an integral part of the documentary series produced by the Class of 2006.

Ndalulilua (Anita) is a two-time Periclean-in-Residence (2005 and 2007) and was the subject for an honors thesis documentary by Erin Barnett, ’10, called “My Name is Anita.”

Ndalulilua is meeting with Jenn Pierson,  Periclean Scholar Class of ’06, who is in Namibia for a year teaching English in a rural area in the north.  Pictures and blog to come!