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The absence of reconciliation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
Namibian-born Horst Kleinschmidt provides challenging observations and personal family history linked to the colonial era. Urging both Germany and German-speaking Namibians to confront their past honestly, he offers examples of apologies made in similar circumstances, and guidelines for reconciliation and redress.
The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
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.
German denial of Herero genocide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
The Germans’ inhuman treatment of the Namibian delegation is only the most recent in a long history of injustice and disrespect towards African peoples. It is more than time, writes Saunders Jumah, for Africans to stand together, demand fair and equal treatment according to international law, and refuse exploitation by anyone.
German–Namibian denialism: How (not) to come to terms with the past
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
Largely unnoticed by most Namibians, the local German-language daily Allgemeine Zeitung provides a forum for colonial apologetics. Reinhart Kössler and Henning Melber examine recent comments and readers’ letters in this newspaper, exposing the reactionary attitudes and privileging strategies that maintain the minority language as a barrier to national reconciliation.
Resistance during World War II
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Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Return of stolen skulls by Germany to Namibia: Closure of a horrible chapter?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
The Namibia-Germany case is being keenly observed by other African peoples and states with unresolved issues relating to the colonial era.
The return of the Herero and Nama skulls: Coming to terms with a difficult history
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
In his analysis of the failure over more than two decades to deal with the genocide, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari looks at the changing attitudes of Namibia’s SWAPO-led government and the role of the Namibian media as well as Germany’s evasive political posturing.
The significance of the repatriation of Namibian human skulls
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
In October 2011, the skulls of Namibian ancestors were returned to their country of origin.
Skullduggery and necrophilia in colonial Namibia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012

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