The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80912
Date Written:  2012-03-20
Publisher:  Pambazuka News
Year Published:  2012
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14214

The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa.

Subject Headings

• Colonialism
• Colonies/German
• Genocide
• German South-West Africa
• Herero people
• Namibia