We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915, a mouthful of a title that plainly shows the long history and complexity the performance embodies. As a play about the thought and rigors of sharing someone else’s story, We Are Proud to Present transports the audience from rehearsal in a theater to the planes of southwest Africa. The actors are dressed in everyday clothing, jeans, t shirts
of a particular ethnic group or nation. (Dictionary )During the beginning of the 20th century, the Herero, an ethnic group of indigenous African herdsmen were slaughtered by the Germans. The Herero people migrated to Southwest Africa, present day Namibia, in the 1600s. Then, in the 1800s, there was a “scramble for Africa” as European countries started colonizing and imperializing. During the Berlin Conference, European countries came together to divide up Africa, giving Germany Southwest Africa where
A country is crying its tears for a war that made their people suffer without food and peace. Namibia is home to the Herero and Namaqua ethnic groups. The barbaric disturbance of the Germans intruding on the land, which did not belong to them, is what caused the conflict between the Herero. The horrific treatment of the Germans towards the Herero felt right in the Germans state of mind but it was not fair at all. Even though the Germans already came up with the ultimate, plan to wipe out these people
(Erichsen). In German South West Africa, now known as Namibia, “about 75 percent of the Herero population and 50 percent of the Nama population were killed during this campaign. This would make it one of the most effective genocides in history” (Erichsen). It is important to learn from and about the Herero and Nama Genocide to raise awareness about the terrible tragedies these people had to go through. The Herero and Nama Genocide has a lot of history not many people know
On the rest of the years (2010-2012) the situation is not different from the comparison established between 2005 and 2009. African countries having abysmal gap between them and the European countries. The European level of prevalence does not even reach the one percent while in the African countries, the HIV prevalence is rampant. It is important to note that the correlation calculation for these last three years has just kept increasing: 95% in 2010, 96% in 2011 and 98% for 2012. An utterly strong
haven is no longer a refuge from racial discrimination and environmental destruction: in an ironic twist of history, the Himba are now threatened, not by European colonists, but by their own Independent nation state governments. In the past, foreign wars and encroaching Western colonists left the Himba relatively untouched. However, globalization has wrought a new government mind in Namibia and Angola: progress is profit at all cost, which translates to extensive tourism and unquestioned governmental
when volcanic eruptions saturate the atmosphere with carbon dioxide gas and resume the greenhouse effect on climate. Solar radiation is absorbed by greenhouse gases, rewarming the climate. A dramatic expansion of the biosphere occurred. ("Cold") History of "Snowball Earth Hypothesis" A tree toppled during a hurricane. A 700 million year old rock bed was discovered in Appalachia. The rock, diamictite consisted of basalt -size cobbles mixed with a slurry of fine silt and sand. The region consisting
In Southwest Africa there lies a land of constantly changing deserts, a land where you would think no one can survive or live. This is the land of Namibia. Within this land live the Himba, people who live nomadically and survive solely off what the land can provide. Can you imagine a place so desolate there is no technology, calendars, or clocks? Can you imagine what it would be like without the everyday comforts we cling to such as our beds, food and water, the privacy our restrooms provide, and
this. History The Global Experience Organization was formed in 2005 in Munster, Germany. It got started as a classroom project between professors in an academy for exchange students to learn the language and to communicate with each other. The project was to make videos that teach varieties of subjects that are taught in the academy; the subjects were often related to language. The program was created for exchange student in Schiller Gymnasium, Munster, and partner schools in Namibia and Poland
sense of the Gods they follow, the rituals they practice and the importance of each community’s history in Africa. There are many different religions celebrated in Africa because each
domestication of animals, whereas the San people who did not live in cities mainly hunted animals for their food or gathered fruits. The history of the San people is documented on thousands of rock paintings, these rock painting are as old as 30,000 years old. A few San people can still be found to this day, they are located close to the Kalahari Desert areas of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. (Sibusisiwe Mubi) Europeans started entering Zimbabwe through Christian missionaries who befriended the people
in the poem, she says “in France they say if the guy penetrates but does not ejaculate then he did not rape me,” speaking of actual rape. A few lines later she uses those same rape and ejaculation images to describe “South Africa penetrating into Namibia penetrating into Angola and does that mean I mean how do you know if Pretoria ejaculates.” Essentially, she is equating South Africa’s pillaging of neighboring countries to rape. This leads to another way by which Jordan grabs the reader’s attention
Today, Lutheranism is growing most rapidly in Africa and Asia and the largest Lutheran population outside of Europe is in Namibia in southern Africa. Luther believed that when Jesus made his sacrifice on our behalf, he made it once and for all and there was no reason to repeat it. Because of this, the Lutherans do not use the term ‘Mass’ or ‘Altar’, instead using ‘worship service’
similar extractive legacies left behind, if one were to continue this comparative paper, it could be argued that adding an analytical section on Namibia would be beneficial. The principle reason for this is simply that while we saw little restructuring of institutional apparatuses post colonialism in ether Mozambique or Angola, this is not the case for Namibia, which has undergone far reaching territorial and institutional reorganization. While the process of liberalisation and democratisation is currently
This paper is about South Africa.South Africa is known for its wild life, sunshine, natural beauty, adventure, and its weather.It is located on the southern tip of African continent. It is the second largest fruits exporter. It is the 25th largest country in the world by land area, and with close to 53 million people, it is the 24th largest populated nation. It covers a land area of 1,221,040 square kilometer and it has 11 official languages. The capital of this nation is Pretoria. Agriculture exists
a diamond. However, many people are oblivious to the history behind the exchange of rings and the diamonds they include. The desire for couples to represent their love for one another with a diamond ring unintentionally promotes corruption on many levels. Not only are these diamonds the product of a business with unethical and immoral beginnings, but also, their alleged significance is a fiction created by these diamond businesses. The history of the diamond industry is overflowing with immoral deals
When I hear the words gold and diamonds the first thing I think of are, gold rings and gold bracelets all encrusted with diamonds. Not once does my mind say I wonder how these diamonds were found? who found them? was it difficult to locate? How long did it take? What were the environment, human, or economic impact did mining theses diamonds and gold were? Diamond mining began between December 1866 and February 1867 in the Cape Colony, South Africa. When a 15-year-old boy named Erasmus, Jacobs
concerns government and/or territory where the use of armed force between two parties, of which at least one is the government of a state, results in at least 25 battle-related deaths,” as published in Journal of Peace Research. Background Information History of the region In the 1800’s, there was a high interest in the continent of Africa from European powers, due to its rich amount of resources and potential for new markets to be established. Because of this, the continent of Africa came u... ... middle
and Indian oceans. To the north lie the neighboring countries of Republic of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; and inside it lies Lesotho, an enclave enclosed by South African territory. African nation is the 25th-largest country within the world by acreage, and with near fifty three million individuals, is the world's 24th-most thickly settled nation. Government: Republic. History: The San people were the first settlers; the Khoikhoi and Bantu-speaking tribes
that possessed one quarter of the world, France was the next most imperial. Rise in nationalism fuelled a desperate push for new colonies, new coming empires like Germany wanted to expand their imperial authority and power, in 1884 Germany obtained Namibia, Togoland and Cameroons, later most of East Africa. Tensions between France and Germany were on the rise, Paris had sought to establish a protectorate in Morocco, Wilhelm II intervened by traveling to the Moroccan city, where he delivered a speech