Post tagged: Apology

Auschwitz to Rwanda: the link between science, colonialism and genocide

Significant links connect racial science in colonial southern Africa with the holocaust of the European Jews. Colonial racial science also contributed to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Read my article at The Conversation.

The article has been republished by THE HUFFINGTONPOST (30 January 2017), the Mail & Guardian (1 February 2017 …

“Not without us”: Ovaherero and Nama sue Germany for Genocide Damages

Ovaherero prisoners and German soldiers, 1907. Photo: SA History Online
Ovaherero prisoners and German soldiers, 1907. Photo: SA History Online

Negotiating the German colonial past remains hotly contested. In a spectacular new twist representatives of the communities directly affected by the 1904-1908 genocide in Namibia have taken the German government to court. With all eyes on the Ovaherero and Nama …