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Blood and freedom: A memorial in the Namibian capital Windhoek to the genocide of the Herero and Nama committed by German colonial troops from 1904 to 1907. Photo: Jürgen Bätz/Getty Images
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

Examining colonial narratives and African representation in German literature

This is an edited extract of Henning Melber’s The Long Shadow of German Colonialism.

  • Henning Melber
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