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Herero (l.) --- Grammaire

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In 1904, the indigenous Herero people of German South West Africa (now Namibia) rebelled against their German occupiers. In the following four years, the German army retaliated, killing between 60,000and 100,000 Herero people, one of the worst atrocities ever. The history of the Herero genocide remains a key issue for many around the world partly because the German policy not to pay reparations for the Namibian genocide contrasts with its long-standing Holocaust reparations policy. The Herero case bears not only on transitional justice issues throughout Africa, but also on legal issues elsewhere in the world where reparations for colonial injustices have been called for.
This book explores the events within the context of German South West Africa (GSWA) as the only German colony where settlement was actually attempted. The study contends that the genocide was not the work of one rogue general or the practices of the military, but that it was inexorably propelled by Germany's national goals at the time. The book argues that the Herero genocide was linked to Germany's late entry into the colonial race, which led it frenetically and ruthlessly to acquire multiple colonies all over the world within a very short period, using any means available.

Jeremy Sarkin is Chairperson-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and is at present Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He is also an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and of the State of New York. A graduate of the University of the Western Cape and of Harvard Law School he has been visiting professor at several US universities where he has taught Comparative Law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice

Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia and Zimbabwe): University of Cape Town Press/Juta

Genocide --- Herero (African people) --- Génocide --- Herero (Peuple d'Afrique) --- History --- Histoire --- William --- Namibia --- Namibie --- Génocide --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Vilʹgelʹm --- Wilhelm --- Guilelmus --- Wei-lien --- Vilkhelm --- Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert, --- Guillaume --- Guillermo --- History. --- German South West Africa. --- Germany's national goals. --- Herero genocide. --- Kaiser Wilhelm II. --- colonial injustices. --- colonial race. --- transitional justice.

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The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated hundreds of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman "lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion" and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the "genocidal gaze" an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis. In The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich, Baer uses the metaphor of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Significantly, Baer also considers the African gaze of resistance returned by the indigenous people and their leaders upon the German imperialists.

Genocide in literature --- Genocide --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- History and criticism. --- Germany --- Colonies --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Herero (African people) --- Nama (African people) --- Witbooi, Hendrik, --- Namibia --- History --- German Studies --- Jewish Studies --- Herero people --- Nama people --- Morenga (film) --- Namakwa (African people) --- Naman (African people) --- Namaqua (African people) --- Rooi Nasie (African people) --- Ethnology --- Khoikhoi (African people) --- Hereros --- Herrero (African people) --- Ochiherero (African people) --- Ovaherero (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Damara (African people) --- Namibia ye Likuluhile --- Namibi --- Namibii͡ --- Republic of Namibia --- S.W.A./Namibia --- South-West Africa --- SWA/Namibia --- SWA/Namibi

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Critical Toponymy: Place names in political, historical and commercial landscapes contains a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 4th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia. These papers present current thinking on how the critical turn in social sciences is manifested in toponymic research, not only locally but also internationally. As such it includes research on place names from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Austria, Slovenia, Central America and even the former Czechoslovakia. The contributions show that the etymology of place names are never purely linguistic – social, political, commercial and other factors influence the giving, use and adaptations of these linguistic and cultural artefacts. Furthermore, given their high symbolic content, place names also serve as political and commercial currency. Place names are therefore important symbolic markers in preserving or changing cultural identities, and in marking or facilitating socio-political changes and relations. Critical Toponymy showcases the many ways in which the representational potential of place names can be deployed in different contexts. Scholars as well as practitioners in toponymy and sociolinguistics will find this an illuminating read.

Sociolinguistics --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- Austria --- Central America --- Namibia --- Place names --- Slovenia --- South Africa --- Zimbabwe --- political --- historical and commercial landscapes --- socio-political changes --- place names --- political aspects --- territory --- Czechoslovakia --- Georg Schuppener --- Geographical names standardisation --- name-planning --- Theodorus du Plessis --- cultural domination --- toponym --- Steyn Khesani Madlome --- missionary societies --- Cornelia Geldenhuys --- Herero place names --- Lucie A. Möller --- unravelling --- etymology --- selected toponyms --- Godwin Makaudze --- cultural heritage --- Bushmanland --- Jani de Lange --- commercial place-name --- Peter Jordan --- Slovenian choronyms in brand names --- Matjaž Geršič --- Drago Kladnik --- Katja Vintar Mally --- place-related identities --- linguistic landscape --- rural South Africa --- Chrismi-Rinda Loth --- Kathryn M. Hudson --- dialectics and politics of football as revealed in the names and nicknames of three selected Zimbabwe stadiums --- Liketso Dube --- NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names --- Lawrence Hoba --- First Trek --- Pioneers --- Elda Hungwe