Ramsay remarks at Nama Cultural Festival at Lokgwabe :: Mmegi Online

I am pleased and honoured to be here in historic Lokgwabe. It is a visit made all the more poignant as well as pleasurable by coinciding with this Festival. The joy of this occasion is a testament to the enduring strength of the Nama in overcoming past adversity as well as meeting contemporary challenges.

No community suffered more during the last century from the racist ideology of imperialism than the Nama. By the same token no community, in this region or elsewhere, put up a stouter resistance. This is a history of extreme suffering an extraordinary heroism that is too important to forget.

The location of the festival is appropriate. While Lokgwabe may appear unremarkable to some, it’s founding, in 1909, was the very remarkable the outcome of high level negotiations between London, Berlin and the people of this community to bring a final end to the Nama-German War.

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