Policewoman Christina must solve a murder that evokes a brutal past. Old Location Films/End Street January 31, 2023 New film Under the Hanging Tree examines how Namibia’s genocide lives on today Sarala Krishnamurthy, Namibia University of Science and Technology The genocide of the Herero people lives on in today’s Namibia and Perivi Katjavivi’s film illustrates this.
The statue of Curt von François is removed by municipal workers. Lisa Ossenbrink/picture alliance via Getty Images November 25, 2022 Namibia pulls down German colonial statue after protests – who was Curt von François? Henning Melber, University of Pretoria The erasure of indigenous people living in Windhoek before the German colonisers arrived has angered activists.
Forty statues represent the children of a former plantation in the ‘Children of Whitney’ installation in Edgard, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) August 11, 2021 Holocaust victims got reparations, so why not descendants of trans-Atlantic slavery? Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University There are major obstacles in confronting the social movement for reparations for the slave trade. Such reparations are a moral imperative, but politically, successfully obtaining them will be hard.