Addressing the genocide in Namibia
It took almost 110 years for Germany to accept the fact of the Namibian Genocide of 1904-1908.
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The outflow of the colonial past
What will it take to get Germany to own up fully to the atrocities it committed during the Genocide in Namibia?
What is to be done?
The German government will have to make a substantial move towards accommodating the demands of the Namibian people.
Germany’s crimes
Will Germany recognize its brutal, colonial history and how it will mark or memorialize that violent period.
The New York Court and Namibia
Namibia taking Germany to court in a country with its own history of genocide against indigenous peoples, hoping they may honor the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.
Germany’s Namibian Legacy
Jim Naughtom's images of Herero wearing German colonial outfits, is a powerful and necessary form of post-colonial critique.
The Namibian debate on German reparations
There are Namibians, including Black Namibians, who resist fully addressing the genocide.
Colonial revisionism; German edition
The German far right party AfD has extended its revisionism of German history to the colonial era.
What’s wrong with the Germans?
German reality shows that travel to Africa have the feel of colonial era ethnographic films in how they perpetuate the image of the ‘primitive other’
The first genocide of the 20th century
The language, methods, and scale of the Herero genocide remain shocking even in the aftermath of the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Kalahari cattle market
Land, landlessness and the German genocide of Namibians at the turn of the 20th century.
The problem with the word “genocide”
…“g-word”—genocide–as descriptor. Since World War II, this term has been laden with political obligations regarding international
German amnesia and Herero women
For Namibians fighting Germany over reparations, It’s about more than about a bit of land or perhaps some goats. It’s about time that debt was paid -- with interest.
The legacy of the first genocide of the 20th century
The mass murder of Nama and Herero by German colonists is now the subject of a documentary by the South African director, Vincent Moloi.
Decolonising white Berlin
…either; German forces were responsible for the genocide of indigenous Herero populations in Namibia (to find
Confront the principle, not episode
It is no surprise that even today, Europe only feels guilt about the episode of the Holocaust and not the principle of genocide which made it possible.