Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern Africa, in what is today the nation of Namibia. The arid soil around his family's homestead was sandy and grassy, a poor fit for staple ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter When European women jettisoned their ankle-length frocks and the multiple petticoats that kept the frocks full and plump, they gained ...

Chief Vekuii Rukoro, has died aged 66 from COVID complications. The veteran politician thrust his people's plight into the spotlight, urging German reparations for colonial-era atrocities. Vekuii ...

Herero Massacre General's Descendants Apologize for 'Germany's First Genocide' The family of a German colonial-era commander who ordered a massacre of Namibia's Herero tribe in 1904 has travelled to ...

The German government formally recognized colonial-era atrocities against the Herero and Nama people in modern-day Namibia for the first time, referring to the early 20th century massacres as ...

© Jim Naughten/courtesy of Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Even in a continent rich with fantastic traditional garments, the Herero tribe of Namibia stands out ...

Twice the targets of systematic racism — an "extermination order" by German colonizers, then brutal segregation by South Africa — they're... Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern ...

Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern Africa, in what is today the nation of Namibia. The arid soil around his family's homestead was sandy and grassy, a poor fit for staple ...