If, at all, the German and Namibian governments truly respected the knowledge, memory and transgenerational experience of the Nama and Ovaherero people, the bilateral negotiations would not have ...

The Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA) and the Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA) have strongly rejected the impending conclusion of the joint declaration ...

The German president's visit to Namibia, primarily meant to honor the late President Hage Geingob, has heightened ...

In the same year, Namibia's Nama people also staged an uprising. German authorities under General Lothar von Trotha unleashed a brutal retaliation, fuelled by racial ideology and including mass ...

Ovaherero and Nama descendants have made it clear that they were inadequately represented in the negotiations. When these got underway in 2015 the Namibian government created chiefs’ forums to ...

There can be no defense for genocide. In March, I spent a week in Namibia pushing for justice for the 1904-08 genocide of the Herero and the Nama peoples by Germany. Although that holocaust was ...