Nama Aufstand ab 1904

Abstract

This article deals with the Nama Wars from 1904 in the then South-West Africa. What role did the Ethiopian movement play? Was war inevitable or would there have been possibilities for an arrangement between the Nama tribes and the colonial power? What role played personal relations, for example, between Hendrik Witbooi and Theodor Leutwein? “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” – George Bernard Shaw