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THE RHENISH MISSION AND THE COLONIAL WAR IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA
"Mission operations often found themselves in an ambiguous situation during a war of colonial conquest. On the one hand, the missionaries wanted to protect the people among whom they were working and keep the door open for the preaching of the…
Some Notes on the so-called Heitsi-Eibeb Graves in Namibia: Ancient Heaps of Stones at the Roadside
When the early European settlers and travellers in South Africa looked for traces of the religion of the indigenous peoples they did not find any temples or altars or religious services. They only observed how the Khoekhoen (whom they called…
The Relation of Nama and Dama Women to Hunting
Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika. Volume 7, no. 1 (1986): 329-349.
Hugo Hahn Addressing the Herero before the battle against the Oorlam-Nama Afrikaners, June 1864
Courtesy National Archives of SWA/Namibia
Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and Missionaries in Early-Nineteenth Century Namibia
"The first comprehensive study of the interaction between the European missionaries and Africans in precolonial Namibia focusses on the expansion of the colonial frontier. Africans entered a new world of social relations where they faced the…
Frühe Kolonialgeschichte Namibias 1880-1930
Contents: 1. Einführung - Wilhem J.G. Möhlig 2 - Unmaking a Market: The Encapsulation of a Regional Trade Network: Northwest Namibia between the 1860s and 1950s. - Michael Bollig 3. Mit Kreuz, Gewehr und Handelskarre: Der Kavango 1903 im kolonialen…