Namibia

Namibian Genocide 1904-1908

The sites of memeory in Namibia hold the traumatic history of the massacre of 100,000 Nama and OvaHerero during 1904-1908 by German military forces in German South West Africa.

These sacred grounds are unprotected, neglected and encroached on by housing developments and the desert that erodes the shallow graves. Contrastingly, adjacent to these grounds lies the ‘contemporary’ municipal cemetery, maintained and kept pristine by the local government.

This land is a visual and tangible manifestation of the memory and history of the world’s first Genocide of the 20^th century and many more are scttered through the Namibian vastness.