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Hendrik Witbooi

Hendrik Witbooi

c. 1830-1905 · Africa (Namibia) · Modern

Namibian leader who resisted German colonial rule and kept detailed written records of his campaigns.

Portrait: Regierung von DSWA · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Birthplace
Africa (Namibia)
Known as
Namibian leader who resisted German colonial rule and kept detailed written records of his campaigns.

Hendrik Witbooi (c. 1830-1905) endures among the great of Africa (Namibia). Namibian leader who resisted German colonial rule and kept detailed written records of his campaigns. Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

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