For me, it was an opportunity to see firsthand how colonial violence is remembered in Namibia. This was not my first time learning about Germany’s colonial history. In 2022, I spent two weeks in ...

Windhoek — AS a keen witness and prolific United Nations note taker of the unfolding political history of Southern Africa, the author of the book, A Nation is Born, The Inside Story of Namibia's ...

Over a century ago, Germany colonised what is now know as Namibia. In the years that followed, tens of thousands of Africans were killed and all opposition was crushed. After its defeat in World War I ...

The inaugural commemoration event for genocide victims under colonial German rule has been held. Namibia's president said more needed to be done to reach an agreement on reparations. Namibia held a ...

Namibia’s founding president, Sam Nujoma, who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery on Saturday. It was attended by his ...

ALMOST 200,000 years ago modern humans originated in parts of what is today called Namibia and South Africa. The six billion people who now occupy all the continents and nations of the world owe their ...

Even in South Africa, which has attracted more attention than other parts of the continent, few women photographers from the early and mid-1900s appear in the historical record. There are even fewer ...

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