Henning Melber joined SWAPO in 1974 and still remembers the origins of Ugly Creatures before he was banned in 1975. There is a rich history of 20th century music in Namibia that was suppressed and all ...

For a long time, it was "the forgotten genocide". Eclipsed by the Holocaust and Germany's role in it, the mass killings of Herero and Nama people in Namibia from 1904 to 1908 have only recently been ...

Namibia on Wednesday held its first national commemoration for the victims of mass killings by colonial-era German troops, in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century.