Africa Links 24 with Robert Gordon
Published on 2025-09-30 13:14:36
AS early as 1902, authorities in German South West Africa distinguished between ‘Eingeborene’ (indigenous) and ‘Buschleute’ (Bushmen). The latter, unlike Herero and Nama, were allegedly ‘untamable’.
Power is the ability to control what people desire. In Namibia, this was pre-eminently money and livestock. San people had no desires that could be controlled or regulated. Like wild animals, they supposedly occupied, but did not possess land, and thus their territory was defined…
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