“Because as youth, we are completely disconnected from understanding where we come from, what our culture is, what our heritage, what it is.“ description INTERGENERATIONALITY Actor: Antonio StuurmannItem type: Quote from interviewDate: nov, 2025Source: interviewStored at: Hoachanas Community Library and Archives + DANSDoJ Researcher: Leah NiederhausenDoJ Research project: A Nama Community Archive as Restorative Justice? […]
Read more“Let me come here [the archive] to see what my grandmother had to say” – Eresty Afrikaner
“Let me come here [the archive] to see what my grandmother had to say.“ description INTERGENERATIONALITY Actor: Eresty AfrikanerItem type: Quote from interviewDate: nov, 2025Source: interviewStored at: Hoachanas Community Library and Archives + DANSDoJ Researcher: Leah NiederhausenDoJ Research project: A Nama Community Archive as Restorative Justice? A Collaborative Pilot ProjectLanguage: English Context A Nama Community […]
Read more“Many people still have that sense of inferiority” – Antonio Stuurmann
“Many people still have that sense of inferiority, […] that I’m also destined to be condemned to that future of living in poverty, in landlessness and mental enslavement.“ description LAND AS BELONGING Actor: Antonio StuurmannItem type: Quote from interviewDate: nov, 2025Source: interviewStored at: Hoachanas Community Library and Archives + DANSDoJ Researcher: Leah NiederhausenDoJ Research project: […]
Read more“[…] when you don’t have land, you can’t do anything” – Jeremias Keramin
“The colonial past has severely affected us since we have the main issue is the land that we have lost because land is a very vital part in our lives […] But when you don’t have land, you can’t do anything. There’s no development.“ description LAND AS BELONGING Actor: Jeremias KeraminItem type: Quote from interviewDate: […]
Read more“If you have land, then you have dignity” – Nadia Meyer
“If you have land, then you have dignity. Because then you at leasthave something that you can call your own, a place where youcan set up your own home, do your grazing, maybe have your backyard vegetable garden or so, whereby you can sustainyourself.” description LAND AS BELONGING Actor: Nadia MeyerItem type: Quote from interviewDate: […]
Read more“We want the power to decide what should be done with our artifacts, our cultural artifacts” – Antonio Stuurman
“We want the power to decide what should be done with our artifacts, our cultural artifacts.“ Antonio Stuurmann, Member of the Technical Committee of NTLA (Nama Traditional Leader’s Association), in conversation with Leah Niederhausen, shares the necessity of self-determined and self-represented participation in the decision-making processes around restitution. RESTITUTION PARTICIPATION Actor: Antonio StuurmanItem type: Quote […]
Read more“Restitution ends when what has been broken is restored” – Hã-eb !Khuxamab
“Restitution ends when what has been broken is restored. In terms of when I don’t have nightmares anymore. When my grandchildren stops having them, when my grandchildren and great grandchildren can talk about what happened. Not with that sense of we still hurt and still pain, but with, yeah, that happened but we are friends […]
Read more“[…] there’s been a transfer of the trauma and the loss of livelihoods, a loss of land that took place” – Antonio Stuurmann
“The genocide has had a very deep impact, not just on the destruction of indigenous knowledge, but also on the sense of damage on the dignity of the people because there’s been a transfer of the trauma and the loss of livelihoods, a loss of land that took place.“ Antonio Stuurmann, Member of the Technical […]
Read more“I would read it withinmy grandfather’s voice” – Medwin Swartbooi
“Whenever I read texts or, historical archives, I would read it withinmy grandfather’s voice […] I would read it within that voice and theway he would, or his voice would tell me, or would guide me” description MULTIVOICED SELF Actor: Medwin SwartbooiItem type: Quote from interviewDate: nov, 2025Source: interview Stored at: Hoachanas Community Library and […]
Read more“I’m forced into a situation where I have to be someone else” – Diderik Ruben Fredericks !Nansma-Tsaobe
“We are wanted to be someone else. I cannot be someone else. I am a Nama. God created me a Nama. I am somebody. But… but… I’m forced into a situation where I have to be someone else.“ description MULTIVOICED SELF Actor: Diderik Ruben Fredericks !Nansma-TsaobeItem type: Quote from interviewDate: nov, 2025Source: interviewStored at: Hoachanas […]
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