Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern Africa, in what is today the nation of Namibia. The arid soil around his family's homestead was sandy and grassy, a poor fit for staple ...
© Jim Naughten/courtesy of Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Even in a continent rich with fantastic traditional garments, the Herero tribe of Namibia stands out ...
The German government formally recognized colonial-era atrocities against the Herero and Nama people in modern-day Namibia for the first time, referring to the early 20th century massacres as ...
For a long time, it was "the forgotten genocide". Eclipsed by the Holocaust and Germany's role in it, the mass killings of Herero and Nama people in Namibia from 1904 to 1908 have only recently been ...
Twice the targets of systematic racism — an "extermination order" by German colonizers, then brutal segregation by South Africa — they're... Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern ...