AfricAvenir Publications

Over the years, AfricAvenir has produced a multitude of books, periodicals, dossiers, papers and reports which altogether constitute a powerful Africa-centred discourse.

PRESSEMITTEILUNG: Völkermord verjährt nicht! (Demo: 22.03., 17 Uhr, s.u.)

Deutschland muss endlich um Entschuldigung bitten für den Genozid in Namibia und die Nachfahren der Opfer entschädigen. Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von: AfricAvenir International, Afrika-Rat Berlin Brandenburg, Afrika-Rat Nord, AFROTAK TV cyberNomads,... |+| read article

Editorial: Germany’s genocide in Namibia – Unbearable silence, or How not to deal with your colonial past

On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a |+| motion to acknowledge its brutal 1904-08 genocide of the Nama and Herero peoples. Germany’s... |+| read article

Reinhart Kössler/Henning Melber: The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences: Toward a culture of memory for a memory culture today – a German perspective

The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of... |+| read article

Peter H. Katjavivi: The significance of the repatriation of Namibian human skulls

Former Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, who was instrumental in getting the repatriation process with Charité started, calls upon both Namibians and Germans to confront the past honestly as part of the process of recovering human... |+| read article

Kwame Opoku: Return of stolen skulls by Germany to Namibia: Closure of a horrible chapter?

Refuting in detail the arguments proffered by Germany on the questions of apology and compensation for the genocide of the Herero and the Nama, Dr Kwame Opoku notes that the Namibia-Germany case is being keenly observed by other African peoples and states... |+| read article