A group of young Namibians will fly to Germany upon invitation! October, 02nd, 2018 saw the launch of the History Festival “War or Peace”
Namibia-project at the Namibia Scientific Society. This four day event is organised and funded by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Deutschland). The event will take place from the 17th to 21st October 2018 in Berlin, whereby over 400 young professionals up to the age of 30 from over 40 countries are expected to attend.
Some of the objectives are to learn from the past to understand the present, get to know different interpretations of history, (de)construct interpretations of history and question history policies, i.e. focusing on today and thinking about war and peace.
Namibia Scientific Society together with UNAM History Department and the Hanns Seidel Foundation are proud to send a group of selected youngsters. The project is in line with the Bilateral Cultural Agreement between Namibia and Germany.
The group consists of 11 young Namibians from various constituencies; 9 will be attending other workshops, while Isdor Kamati, a librarian at the Namibia Scientific Society, and Liina Nambahu, a history student UNAM, present a workshop dealing with Namibia`s history.
This workshop will be one of the 20 workshops offered at the Festival. It will focus on the events that led up to the World War I in German South West Africa and the consequential development which crafted modern Namibia. The different stages of Namibia’s history from subjugation to liberation will be explained and discussed. Since this is the opportunity of a lifetime which takes some input, the participants wholeheartedly thank the German Embassy for providing visa free of charge, Santam for sponsoring the required travel insurance and Lothem Safaris for donating document bags.