Education
Born in Andara, Kavango Region, Diescho attended Fort Hare University in South Africa where he studied law and political science.
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Career
In 1988, he wrote Born of the Sun, the first novel by a native-born Namibian author During his student days he worked against the apartheid system and was imprisoned in Peddie and East London. Whilst working for a diamond mine company he helped found a worker"s union.
In 1984 he became a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University in New York City, where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science in 1992.
His dissertation, entitled, "The Role of Education in the Politics of Control in Namibia: 1948–1988," explored the relationship between politics and education in Namibia. He was an award winning television announcer for the programme South Africa Now on American public television
His novel Born of the Sun was published in the United States in 1988 and his second novel Troubled Waters was published in 1993. He is one of Namibia"s very few native born novelists.
Diescho was the Executive Director of the Namibian Institute of Public Administration and Management (NIPAM) from 1 July 2013 until December 2015 when he was dismissed.
