Namibia: Tri-Vium Slave Trade in the Era of Merchant Capital in Northern Region

14 October 2011
analysis

In Tuesday's edition of The Namibian newspaper of 11 October 2011, at its readers' column on page 8, an SMS written by someone under the pseudonym "The Patriot", prompted me to research and write on the claims contained in that SMS saying that Namibians should "show remorse and apologize to their own for selling them into slavery for trinkets, alcohol, guns and ammunition", to be able to claim the moral high ground and self-righteous claims.

Many of us suffer from the "Ostrich Syndrome". We continuously bury our heads in the sand choosing to ignore certain realities in hopes that they will go away.

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