The statue of Curt von François is removed by municipal workers.
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The erasure of indigenous people living in Windhoek before the German colonisers arrived has angered activists.
An aerial view of members of the Herero and Nama communities taking part in the Reparation Walk in 2019.
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The problem is that communities who continue to be most affected by the violent past have not been involved in negotiations.
A human skull on display in Berlin in 2018. Germany handed back human remains seized during the Namibia genocide from 1904 to 1908.
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An oral history based biography of a survivor of colonial genocide in Namibia indicates instances of humanity during an entirely inhumane era.
One of the new resolutions on land related to Namibia’s urban areas, like the capital city Windhoek.
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The question of land has been hotly contested in Namibia ever since independence.
Esther Utjiua Muinjangue commemorates the victims of the German colonial genocide in Namibia.
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In mid-2015 the German Foreign Office after decades of denial seemingly acceded, in a very informal way, to labelling what had happened in South West Africa as genocide, is now backtracking.
Ovaherero and Ovambanderu attending a council for dialogue about the genocide of 1904 in Berlin.
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Representatives of Namibian communities affected by the 1904-1908 genocide have filed a class action against Germany in the US seeking reparations for atrocities committed by Imperial Germany