Namibia might not be well known in many parts of the world. But the arid southern African country has an extraordinary history. Rich in indigenous cultural diversity, Namibians lived for more than a ...

On a recent trip to Namibia—one of the most stunningly beautiful countries I have ever visited—I learned of a startling piece of the country’s history, largely unknown today: the genocide of the ...

Editor’s Note: CNN’s Eye On series takes you to a different country each month. In October we visit Namibia highlighting the country’s best and brightest people, plus framing its pressing issues in a ...

Labor movements in Namibia have been rather fragile over the past few decades, ever since the country gained independence from South Africa in 1990. This was not always the case. Collective labor ...

Paul Trewhela, an anti-Stalinist historian of the national liberation movements in Southern Africa, reviews Marion Wallace's A History of Namibia: From the Beginning to 1990 A new history of Namibia ...

Namibia is being urged to pause its plans to extend a port on Shark Island, a key site in its genocide and the likely location of human remains. When the southwest African nation was under German ...

As Namibia commemorates the second Genocide Remembrance Day, the solemn occasion once again casts a spotlight on one of the darkest chapters in the country's history - the genocide committed against ...

It was the early 1990s, just years after Namibia’s independence from South Africa, a time when nearly every speech a politician gave was like a series of patriotic how-to guides on building a new ...

Women photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium. Even in South Africa, which has attracted more attention than other ...

Namibia might not be well known in many parts of the world. But the arid southern African country has an extraordinary history. Rich in indigenous cultural diversity, Namibians lived for more than a ...