The debate over reparations for colonial injustices is gaining international significance—including in relation to the German genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama, as well as the Damara and San, in the former colony of German South West Africa (now Namibia). Representatives of the affected communities have been demanding reparations from Germany for decades. At the…
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Namibian-born artist and author Nicola Brandt is launching ‘The Distance Within’ in Windhoek. In her review Heike Becker highlights how The Distance Within combines striking visual imagery with thoughtful essays to explore the interlinked German and Namibian colonial pasts and their ongoing effects on memory, identity, and landscape, situating Brandt’s work as both aesthetically powerful…
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Published by Informante, 24/03/2025 | https://informante.web.na/?p=371998 Zorena Jantze LAW firm, Murorua, Kurtz and Kasper (MKK) Incorporated has penned a letter to government on behalf of 10 Nama Traditional authorities, the Oveharero Traditional Authority as well as the Landless People Movement (LPM) to invalidate and set aside the “Joint Declaration” agreed by the Namibian and German…
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On 27 January 2025, the OvaHerero Traditional Authority published the press statement “Elon Musk’s Support for Right-Wing Parties in Europe, Comments on German Historical Accountability, and Irresponsible Jokes About Nazism.” You can download the press statement here.
The Nama and Ovaherero peoples of Namibia have been fighting for recognition and justice for decades. Today, they are being excluded from of crucial negotiations regarding acknowledgment, repatriation, reparation between the Governments of Germany and Namibia. Watch the DW news click below to learn more about their fight, their concerns and how plans to build…
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Demonstration on Wednesday, 2.10.2024, 3:30 p.m. in front of the Federal Foreign Office, Werderscher Markt 1, 10117 Berlin
Event location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin Date: 17.08.2024, 16:00 – 18:00 Hr About the book Ondjembo yo Null Vier. The Gun of Null VierFraitaxtsēs tsîn ge ra≠gâ Even Friday’s SetsIxmucané Aguilar, Published by Archive Books, Berlin (with support of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung) Genocide in Namibia is an especially sensitive matter—its history has…
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German remembrance policy is patting itself on the back. In Namibia we are seeing just how deficient it actually is. By Tsafrir Cohen and Eyal Weizman
Statement by the alliance ‘No amnesty on genocide’ 28.06.2024 This year marks the 120th anniversary of key events in the genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama, such as the Battle of Ohamakari near the Waterberg and Lothar von Trotha’s extermination order against the Ovaherero. The colonial crimes in what was then German South West Africa…
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In 2015 the German government acknowledged that the Empire committed genocide in its colony South West Africa, known since its independence as Namibia. This article presents the Namibian case to illustrate the contradictions and limitations that emerge when general notions are tested and undermined by asymmetric power relations of Realpolitik.
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