Abstract
This article explores, presents and comments upon some features of a political culture, which has evolved from a legacy of violence within the post-colonial nation-building discourse of the independent Republic of Namibia. In so doing, it tries to unravel some of the fundamental premises from which the current limits or distortions in the commemoration of the colonial genocide committed a century ago have arisen. There is a visible selectivity of themes on 'liberation politics' as well as the 'monopolisation of the victim status' as documented by the political office bearers of the liberation movement now in power, on the one hand, and a dominant traditional leadership within the Herero on the other. These contrasting perceptions and their political-ideological results can be seen as historical, structural and ideological legacies of colonial rule, as this article tries to show, which has not yet been fully laid to rest.
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