In brief it goes something like this: one of the tribes in the region, the Herero people, was for a time given favored status by the Germans but then fell out with them. Eventually, the Herero were ...

By 1905 the rebellion was crushed, although mop-up operations continued until 1907, at which point about 60,000 of the 80,000 Herero people had been killed.

Hengari blames systematic racism for his family's poverty — and he and his people, the Herero, are still fighting for justice. The first crisis came in 1904.

In October 1904, after people from the Herero and Nama tribes launched a rebellion against German colonial settlers in South West Africa, German General Lothar von Trotha issued a written ...

Regalia commemorating the German South-West Africa government’s genocide of the Herero and Nama people in Namibia at a gathering of descendants on October 4 2015. (Juergen Baetz, DPA) ...

Some 65,000 members of the Herero tribe were killed by German troops. Every year the Herero people commemorate those that died in battle with a special ceremony.

This commemoration honors the victims of the Herero and Nama genocide, perpetrated by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908. During this period, tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people ...

The ostensible subject of Jackie Sibblies Drury's play, the full title of which is "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the ...

From his humble Windhoek workshop, Namibia's leading fashion designer is keeping alive the love for the Herero people's traditional dress with horned headgear, a full-length skirt and a link to ...

Namibian schoolgirls walk by a memorial in tribute to the victims of the alleged genocide committed by German forces against Herero and Nama people in 1904, on June 20, 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia.

From his humble Windhoek workshop, Namibia's leading fashion designer is keeping alive the love for the Herero people's traditional dress with horned headgear, a full-length skirt and a link to ...