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Part one: A country with no children

by Catherine Sofianos 26 June 202125 June 2021

The generation of 1976, which shook the word with its grassroots education and mobilisation, has grown up. This generation’s mass movements can learn from its elders

Posted inEquality, General

O, Canada! Art bears witness to ‘dark secrets’ of colonised places

by Leizl Eykelhof 9 June 202110 June 2021

An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide

Posted inEquality, General

South Africa’s voracious ambition in Namibia and the few who came between it : Part Two

by Catherine Sofianos 5 February 20214 February 2021

Troubling Power: Michael Scott and the Herero mission to the UN

Posted inEquality, General

Namibia’s Blue Book of record: Part one

by Catherine Sofianos 27 January 20215 February 2021

On 27 January, the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust, but it is also worth remembering the victims of Germany’s other, earlier genocide in Namibia. A rare book, commissioned by Britain in the early 1900s, stands as a record of the crimes against the Herero and the Nama

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