The legacy of German colonialism and genocide in Namibia: Full-length interview (1h) @ecchrberlin
The legacy of German colonialism and genocide in Namibia: Full-length interview (1h)  @ecchrberlin
Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
In March and November 2019, ECCHR, the Akademie der Künste as well as representatives from the Ovaherero and Nama people organized an event series in Swakopmund and Windhoek, Namibia, and Berlin, Germany. Together with researchers, academics and lawyers they discussed the present-day repercussions of German colonialism in Namibia.

ECCHR met Reverend Rupert Hambira and Ovaherero representative Kamutuua Kandorozu in Swakopmund for a talk on the German genocide in Namibia, reparations and the future.

Interview & editing: Florence Handura, Natalia Schmidt and Karina Theurer
Camera: Christian Ender
Production: ECCHR

A complete transcription of the interview is published in the anthology Dekoloniale Rechtskritik und Rechtspraxis (Nomos 2020) in German translation, edited by Karina Theurer, director of the Institute for Legal Intervention and Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR general secretary.
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The legacy of German colonialism and genocide in Namibia: Full-length interview (1h)

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