‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century

V isiting the Namibian port town of Lüderitz in late 2024, I came across a small museum run by descendants of German settlers. Alongside imperial German flags and memorabilia, it displayed artefacts of the Herero tribe that had been recovered from nearby Shark Island. What went unmentioned is that,...

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