Ovaherero: Germany’s Billions Aren’t Reparations
Nandiuasora Mazeingo of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation is renewing calls for justice regarding the 1904-1908 genocide in Namibia. The foundation rejects the 2021 German-Namibian agreement, arguing that the financial package does not constitute true reparations.
Why it matters
This reflects ongoing global debates regarding colonial-era accountability, the return of looted cultural property, and the definition of reparations.
Namibia’s Nandiuasora Mazeingo on German accountability for genocide and the fight to reclaim looted heritage
From mid-June to early July 2026, Nandiuasora Mazeingo, chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation (OGF), visited Germany to renew long-standing demands for justice for the genocide committed against the Ovaherero. Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial forces in what they called German South West Africa waged a war of extermination against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples of what is now Namibia, killing tens of thousands through massacres and forced expulsion into the desert.
Rasmus Platz is studying global history in Berlin, with a focus on German colonialism in Africa, and has worked on several research projects related to provenance research on cultural property from colonial contexts.
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