by Talking Humanities | Jul 15, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Professor Henning Melber explores the German version of colonial amnesia, which he says is not about a lack of historical research, but a failure to acknowledge – emotionally and politically – what is known. The German colonial empire was...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 8, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Keith Somerville reports on a trip to Damaraland in Namibia, where drought and rising temperatures threatens thousands of people and domestic animals but has created “opportunities for lions to thrive”. Driving through a series of communal conservancies in...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 28, 2017 | Features, Politics & Law
Image: Members of a large pride at Ongava, south of Etosha, © Keith Somerville Professor Keith Somerville looks at how Namibia, a country subject to periodic droughts with often little permanent water for wildlife or livestock, has gone much further than most African...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 20, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: Damara Zebras at Chudop waterhole, Etosha, Namibia. Wikimedia Commons Professor Henning Melber tries to find something that ‘the land of wide open spaces’, Namibia, can celebrate on its 27th anniversary of independence. Most visitors to Namibia are impressed....
