Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule

Sat, 9 Aug 2025 06:29:07 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/namibias-forgotten-genocide-how-bushmen-were-hunted-and-killed-under-german-colonial-rule-261267>

"The genocide of Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama people by German colonial forces
(1904-1907) is widely documented. But much less is made of what came next – the
genocide of the country’s Bushmen, also known as the San.

In 1992, anthropologist Robert J. Gordon published a book, The Bushman Myth
and the Making of a Namibian Underclass
, about these indigenous people of
Namibia and how they were hunted and turned into servants by German colonisers.

Now it has been thoroughly revised and has been republished as The Bushman
Myth Revisited: Genocide, Dispossession and the Road to Servitude
. We asked
him five questions."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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