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- ↑ Making a Literature: The Case of Namibia Author(s): Michael Chapman Source: English in Africa, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Oct. 1995), pp. 19–28 Published by: Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University
- ↑ Joseph Diescho Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Namibia Institute for Democracy
- "Joseph Diescho". Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2002.
- Diescho, Joseph, with Celeste Wallin. Born of the Sun: a Namibian Novel. New York City: Friendship Press, 1988.
- Diescho, Joseph. Troubled Waters: A Novel. 1993. Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers.
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