by Mari Serebrov | May, Tue, 2026 | Mama Namibia
They sealed the waterholes. General von Trotha knew that thousands of people with no water, in the Omaheke Desert, would not survive. He didn’t need to shoot every man, woman, and child. He just needed to cut off the exits and poison the waterholes. “Born...
by Mari Serebrov | May, Fri, 2026 | Mama Namibia
Why do you think some genocides become part of collective memory while others remain forgotten? Between 1904 and 1908, Germany orchestrated the near-total destruction of two peoples in what was then called German Southwest Africa – the Herero and the Nama. An...