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Her colonizer

Namibia was once colonized by Germany dating back in 1884, it was also known as South West Africa. A time of doom it was for this country as many were terrorist, killed and exploited, lets not forget the hundreds of families that were torn apart and never got a chance to reunited again. 

After world war I, The league of nation handed Namibia to South Africa to administer it. After the dissolvement of the league of nations in 1946, it's successor The United Nations made a decision to reform the administration of the former organization, which was to help establish and prepare Namibia for it's independence. 

 

One might say that yay Namibia was finally going to be freed from her captures, but only to find out that matters became worst as South Africa did not do as it was instructed to, instead it exploited the Namibian people and their natural resource further to enrich themselves this was done by the white South Africans.

Before the foreign man came to rule in the land of Namibia, people lived as hunter gatherers, and agriculturists, they would go about the forests and hunt as many animals they needed to. Clothing was made from animal skin and from plants and tree branches. They believed in ancestorial powers and had their own gods they worshiped and pleased, one would say that they led a very simple complexed life with little knowledge that the world around them was revolving or changing. 

Exploiting her beauty 

The main course that attracted the Germans to Namibia was the fact that it is rich in resources from diamonds, silver, gold, rich fertile land to it's beautiful animals. with European countries exhausting their resource due to sudden developments that was happening at a time they had to come to Africa to exploit her resources in which she was rich in and Namibia is no exception.

It was easy for the Germans to come and colonize Namibia, they used religion to soften the resistance of the people and brought unknown goods with them that amazed the locals, which led to unfair trades like a pack of sugar for land, cattle and so on. 

To add on South Africa inflected laws in Namibia, laws like the apartheid laws this laws prevented black Namibian to have any political rights, economical and social right were also taken away from them, it's intention was to rule over Namibia and have total control over it's resources.

Her regime 

Yeah Namibia suffered in the hands of the colonizers from Germans to the South Africa troops, like any tunnel there is a light at the end and Namibia officially got its independence in 1990 0n the 21st March. All this was made possible by the brave men and women who fought and stood their ground for the freedom of their country, today in Namibia we commemorate those brave men and woman by celebrating hero's day on 26 August .

Reference 

Image from 'Remember Cassinga?’ An Exhibition of Photographs and Histories Assembled by Christian A. Williams, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape