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Title: The Conversation

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Author: Heike Becker - Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape

Published: January 28, 2020

Updated: January 31, 2020

Copyright: Heike Becker - Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape, The Conversation

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Namibia

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Germany committed genocide in Africa 40 years before the Holocaust of the European Jews. In 1904 and 1905 the Ovaherero and Nama people of central and southern Namibia rose up against colonial rule and dispossession in what was then called German South West Africa. The revolt was brutally crushed. By 1908, 80% of the Ovaherero and 50% of the Nama had died of starvation and thirst, overwork and exposure to harsh climates.

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Surviving genocide: a voice from colonial Namibia at the turn of the last century

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