The Undefeated - Nama In Botswana (Part 1)

Besides being a joyous and colourful celebration of the richness of Nama culture in Botswana and the wider region, the Festival has emerged as a powerful testament to its focus community’s enduring strength in overcoming past adversity, while meeting contemporary challenges.

No community, in this region or elsewhere, has suffered proportionately more from imperialist rapacity, nor put up a stouter resistance against racist oppression, than the Nama. This history of extreme deprivation and extraordinary heroism is now beginning to come under the global spot-light as a result of an international campaign on the part of the victim’s descendants to seek just recognition and restitution.