Kolonialgeschichte

from Haynes McFadden, 03.09.2008

Omaruru/Namibia To understand the history of the Herero tribe one must study Wilhelm Christiaan Zeraeua (1800-1876).

We know little of the first forty years of his life. His tribe is Herero and seems to trace itself back matrilineally to a single woman. In the early to middle 1840’s he organized several men from his tribe into a “Troope” and started what in its day was probably equal to a “Security Company”. The Nama and Herero tribes both used flags in their Wars to mark their military troops. Both used a White Flag to mark their war troops.

Hier ist eine Buchempfehlung von unseren namibischen Projektpartnern zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der deutschen Kolonialpolitik in Namibia:

Jürgen Zimmerer, Joachim Zeller (Hrsg.): Genocide in German South-West Africa. The colonial war (1904-1908) in Namibia and its aftermath.

**Jürgen Zimmerer, Joachim Zeller (Hrsg.): Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen, Berlin 2003, Ch.