The Herero are a relatively small group: only around 179,000 remain, less than six percent of Namibia's population, according to the 2023 census. "I feel they fell in love with the dress, they are ...

For a long time, it was "the forgotten genocide". Eclipsed by the Holocaust and Germany's role in it, the mass killings of Herero and Nama people in Namibia from 1904 to 1908 have only recently been ...

Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Vice President Lucia Witboo light a ceremonial candle as the country holds its first commemoration for victims of the Herero and Nama genocide German ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibia marked the mass killings of Indigenous people in the early 20th century by former colonial ruler Germany with its first genocide remembrance day on Wednesday. The day was ...

The magnificent traditional costume of the Herero of Namibia, southern Africa, is a stark reminder of the country's tumultuous past. In the late 19th century, the influence of missionaries and traders ...

From his humble Windhoek workshop, Namibia's leading fashion designer is keeping alive the love for the Herero people's traditional dress with horned headgear, a full-length skirt and a link to German ...

FILE - Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments, are returned to Namibian tribal leaders during a ...