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The Herero and Nama genocide or Namibian genocide, [5] formerly known also as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire.
The play is a comedic dramatization of the largely forgotten Herero and Namaqua genocide which took place in Namibia between 1904 and 1907 when the region was a German colony, after Germany confiscated tribal lands and the Herero people rebelled. The retribution over four years by German soldiers resulted in more than 65,000 deaths.
Hendrik Witbooi (c.1830 – 29 October 1905) [1] was a chief of the ǀKhowesin people, a sub-tribe of the Khoikhoi. He led the Nama people during their revolts against the German colonial empire in present-day Namibia, in connection with the events surrounding the Herero and Namaqua Genocide. He was killed in action on 29 October 1905.
The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism. Faber & Faber, 2010. Gewald, Jan-Bart. Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890–1923, James Currey, Oxford, 1999. Lau, Brigitte. History and Historiography: 4 essays in reprint, Discourse/MSORP, Windhoek, May, 1995.
"The war against the Herero and Nama was the first in which German imperialism resorted to methods of genocide...." [21] Roughly 80,000 Herero lived in German South West Africa at the beginning of Germany's colonial rule over the area, while after their revolt was defeated, they numbered approximately 15,000. In a period of four years ...
The Hereros were cattle grazers, occupying most of central and northern South West Africa. Under the leadership of Jonker Afrikaner, who died in 1861, and then later under the leadership of Samuel Maharero, they had achieved supremacy over the Nama and Orlam peoples in a series of conflicts that had in their later stages, seen the extensive use of fire-arms obtained from European traders.
The Herero genocide is described as the first genocide of the 20th century. [118] [119] In 2012, German politician Uwe Kekeritz said Germany needed to move away from "a culture of denial". [120] Prisoners from the Herero and Nama genocide, 1904-1907
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