Stories from Namibia, Angola, South Africa, and Lesotho

From 1904 to 1915, the Kaiser's troops in Germany's then- Southwest Africa colony systematically exterminated as many as 80,000 members of the rebellious Herero Tribe. It was a scarcely known slaughter of Teutonic efficiency that produced forced labor camps, sex slaves and the first academic "studies" of supposed Aryan superiority, a prelude to the Jewish holocaust. Now the tribal remnant in north … [Read more...] about Forgotten Victims: African Tribe Wants Apology

Economics is a modern term inconceivable to a people who still wear animal skins, till small plots of maize, grind millet daily, cook over open fires, and weave baskets. A proposed government dam project at the ancestral center of Himba life, Epupa Falls on the Cunane River threatens a place early explorers once called "The Land of the Red Women" Update: Nearly 18 years after this article was … [Read more...] about Proposed Dam Threatens To Wash Out African Subsistence Tribe’s Way of Life

An estimated 60,000 "herder boys" are trapped in an insidious form of indentured servitude virtually unnoticed by the outside world. Boys as young as 6 are forced to roam alone with their masters' cattle for months through the bleak highlands of this African kingdom. Their impoverished families hire away their boyhoods to wealthy cattle owners for food, a cash pittance or debt forgiveness. On … [Read more...] about Thousands Sold into Servitude in Lesotho as ‘Herder Boys’

With more doctors per capita in the world, Cuba has deployed more than 1,000 physicians, dentists and psychiatrists to Angola and other African countries where leftist movements that Cuba once helped are now governments in power. The two dozen countries that Cuba is targeting include southern nations of particular strategic or economic value such as Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South … [Read more...] about Fidel Castro’s Africa