Some readers of my recent article, ‘Auschwitz to Rwanda: the link between science, colonialism and genocide’ will be interested to learn more about the harrowing connections between colonial science, African and European mass atrocities. An excellent starting point for this is a reading of Steven Robins’ Letters of Stone. From …
27 January is ‘International Holocaust Remembrance Day’, designated by the United Nations in 2005. The international memorial day commemorates the genocide of an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 2 million Roma and Sinti, the deaths of 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, and of 9,000 homosexual men, who …
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.
Read my article at The Conversation.
The article has been republished by the Mail and Guardian Africa.
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 …
When former German Foreign Minister Joseph ‘Joschka’ Fischer visited the Namibian capital Windhoek in October 2003 he went on record to say that there would be no apology that might give grounds for reparations for the first genocide of the 20th century, which …