In 2011 Jim Naughten spent four months photographing the Herero tribe of Namibia. The London-based photographer drove thousands of miles through the desert, meeting and negotiating with people, ...
Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Vice President Lucia Witboo light a ceremonial candle as the country holds its first commemoration for victims of the Herero and Nama genocide German ...
Award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave. A group of actors gather to tell the little-known ...
Archive photo from 2017 shows Uruanaani Scara Matundu, of the Herero community, showing photos of his ancestors. His family fled the genocide in the former colony of German South West Africa, now ...
Theodor Adorno’s oft-quoted, much misunderstood remark, “It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz,” raises questions about the ability of artists to represent the Holocaust. How can the cultural ...
Oral histories are only as good as their sources. So the amateur actors researching the systematic extermination of the Herero tribe of Namibia by German colonial occupiers in and around 1907 have a ...
Schoolgirls in Windhoek walk past a memorial to victims of Germany's colonial-era massacre in Namibia - Copyright AFP Wakil KOHSAR Schoolgirls in Windhoek walk past a ...