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 ...

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 ...

Berlin — More than 100 years after the crimes were committed, Germany formally confessed on Friday to having committed genocide as the colonial power in what is now Namibia. After years of ...

Twice the targets of systematic racism — an "extermination order" by German colonizers, then brutal segregation by South Africa — they're... Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Vice President Lucia Witboo light a ceremonial candle as the country holds its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for ...

Police and family members are searching for a missing Katutura woman who was last seen three weeks ago. Nandiuasora Michel Kandjii (20) did not return home after she was last seen at the Herero Mall ...

A German minister will, for the first time, attend ceremonies commemorating the massacre of Namibia's Herero people by German soldiers 100 years ago. Germany's development minister, Heidemarie ...