Africa Links 24 with Usutuaije Maamberua
Published on 2025-11-11 15:00:00
Between 1884 and 1908, German colonial conquest in South West Africa – now Namibia – produced one of the 20th century’s first genocides.
The 1904 war erupted not from Herero rebellion but from German aggression.
Lieutenant Ralph Zürn fired the first shots at Okahandja (known in Otjiherero as Ovita via Zürn), sparking an uprising rooted in land dispossession, forced labour and racial humiliation.
The OvaHerero’s armed response was an act of survival, a desperate…
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