Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape
My current research interests revolve around the connections of politics and aesthetics, popular culture, social movements, popular protests, and nationalism. The regional focus of my work has been Southern Africa, mainly Namibia and South Africa. More recently, I have also begun to engage in more depth with global decolonization movements.
Surviving genocide: a voice from colonial Namibia at the turn of the last century
Jan 27, 2020 03:16 am UTC| Insights & Views
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...
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