About Jane Katjavivi

Jane Katjavivi has worked in publishing and book development since the early 1980’s. She is an English born, naturalised Namibian. She set up her own publishing company New Namibia Books and later opened a bookshop which specialised in books from and about Africa, and in particular Namibia.

She was founding chairperson of the Association of Namibian Publishers and the Namibian Book Development Council, a founder member of the African Publishers’ Network (APNET) and a member of the Management Council of African Books Collective. She writes short stories and is working on a novel.

Her memoir, Undisciplined Heart was written while she was in Europe with her husband who was Namibian ambassador to Brussels and Berlin.