Reckoning with genocide in Namibia

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Reckoning with genocide in Namibia

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Nov 6, 2022

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German abuses against the Herero and Nama in Namibia were the 20th century’s first genocide and a brutal harbinger of the Nazi's WWII Holocaust.
Written by Hamilton Wende.
Read by Kokui Selormey.

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Nov 6, 2022

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Reckoning with genocide in Namibia

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