Namibia: Ambassador Schmidt's Overture Needs to Be More Than a Repertoire

23 January 2015

AS an ardent observer of Namibian-German bilateral relations, especially as it relates to Germany's avowed historic and moral responsibility to Namibia, and particularly to the descendants of the victims of the communities who were grossly and grievously affected by colonial Germany's engagement in the then Deutsche Südwes Afrika, one cannot but welcome the new German Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel, Ambassador Georg Schmidt.

Similarly, one cannot but take note of his seeming cordial and sober overtures regarding directly engaging representatives of the direct descendants of the victims of especially Germany's colonial excesses about 111 years ago.

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