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 German ...

The magnificent traditional costume of the Herero of Namibia, southern Africa, is a stark reminder of the country's tumultuous past. In the late 19th century, the influence of missionaries and traders ...

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 ...

In four years, from 1904-1908, tens of thousands of Herero people of Namibia were killed by the German Empire. The experience of one family is described by a descendant, a 23-year-old Herero woman ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia marked the mass killings of Indigenous people in the early 20th century by former colonial ruler Germany with its first genocide remembrance day on Wednesday. The day ...

Lars Kraume took his period drama, about the massacre of the Herero and Nama tribes by German colonial powers, on tour in Namibia before its European release. "If this film can be a tool for ...