A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.
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Germany’s genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama has been well documented, but the massacre of the Bushmen from 1912 to 1915 is seldom discussed.
The pact between Germany and Namibia on atrocities, including genocide, committed under colonial rule is deeply flawed.
The erasure of indigenous people living in Windhoek before the German colonisers arrived has angered activists.
The problem is that communities who continue to be most affected by the violent past have not been involved in negotiations.
An oral history based biography of a survivor of colonial genocide in Namibia indicates instances of humanity during an entirely inhumane era.
The question of land has been hotly contested in Namibia ever since independence.
In mid-2015 the German Foreign Office after decades of denial seemingly acceded, in a very informal way, to labelling what had happened in South West Africa as genocide, is now backtracking.
Representatives of Namibian communities affected by the 1904-1908 genocide have filed a class action against Germany in the US seeking reparations for atrocities committed by Imperial Germany
