by Mari Serebrov | Jun, Wed, 2026 | Mama Namibia
Twenty-one days ago, I started sharing this history because I believed you deserved to know it. Today is the last post in this series – but it is not an ending. “It’s a time to store up memories…” That line from Mama Namibia was written... 
by Mari Serebrov | May, Wed, 2026 | Mama Namibia
Tomorrow, May 28, is Namibia’s Genocide Remembrance Day. 🇳🇦🇩🇪 Tonight — on the eve of remembrance — In Namibia and across the world, we stand alongside the Herero and Nama peoples to honor the memory of what was taken – not just lives, but entire worlds.... 
by Mari Serebrov | May, Tue, 2026 | Mama Namibia
This Thursday, May 28, is Namibia’s Genocide Remembrance Day. I want to sit with this tonight: “I shut my eyes. I don’t want to see my death.” That is Jahohora. Twelve years old. Alone in the Omaheke Desert. Already beyond anything a child... by Mari Serebrov | May, Fri, 2026 | Mama Namibia
Five words. “I must find my family.” In any language, in any century, those are among the most human words ever spoken. In Mama Namibia, they are the words that keep Jahohora moving when everything in her body is telling her to stop. When the German... by Mari Serebrov | May, Wed, 2026 | Mama Namibia
For decades after the genocide, Germany didn’t just ignore what had happened. It actively worked to suppress it. It had help. To gain control of Southwest Africa following the defeat of the Germans in World War I, the British chronicled the atrocities in what...