Herero

Tsau in Ngamiland District holds a significant part of the Herero history since some Herero war veterans were buried in the village.

The Herero of South West Africa (now Namibia) were decimated by the Germans in a manner too horrendous for polite historians to recount.

* "We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika Between the years 1885-1915" marks Steppenwolf Theatre Company's latest production for young adults.

These include the mass murder of tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people during protests against colonial rule from 1904-1908.

Buried beneath the desert wastelands of what is today modern-day Namibia lay the scattered skeletal remains of over 100,000 thousand Africans: the Herero and Nama people.

We also do not forget a long list of acknowledged and unacknowledged genocides and near genocides where Germany's Herero Genocide, Belgian King Leopold's savagery in the Congo, Portuguese brutality in Angola and Mozambique, French and Spanish bloodletting in North Africa, numerous British punitive expeditions, Italian barbarism in Libya and Ethiopia and modern-day Rwanda are only a few examples of the many kindnesses of superior civilization the West brought to our shores, where complicity by inaction, indifference and deliberate collusion with our oppressors, makes Darfur the latest injury to the soul and body of Africa.

However, the same person will turn around and say "I'm a Herero and as a Herero I need me two women".

The Nama, however, were at times engaged in violent conflict not just with the German administration, but also with the Herero people of Namibia.

In 1907 the German colonial army, wrapping up its genocide of Nama and Herero peoples in Southwest Africa, generally counted the Namib Desert as more trouble than it was worth it.

This went hand-in-hand with a political initiative to make amends with Namibia for the genocide of Herero and Nama people in the early 20th century, although Germany has balked at the idea of reparations.

Os desenhos dela com pigmentos oriundos da Namibia (usados pelas mulheres Himba Herero) tambem recordam Smithson, para quem a ferrugem, ou seja, o oxido de ferro, e indissociavel da presenca do metal na cultura contemporanea como material que, mais cedo ou mais tarde, revela a sua vida propria no tempo e, desse modo, e alegorica.