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This Land is Ours

Sarah Colt | August 16, 2005

Namibia's leaders -- who fought a long war against South African apartheid-style occupation, winning independence in 1990 -- are committed to redistributing land in a country ...
Proposed Dam Threatens To Wash Out African Subsistence Tribe’s Way of Life

Todd Bensman | December 31, 1998

EPUPA FALLS, Namibia - Fall, 1998 -- Sacred fires still hold powerful spiritual sway here, and ancestral graves of stacked bull horns are worshiped. Lean, tough men wearing ...
Thousands Sold into Servitude in Lesotho as ‘Herder Boys’

Todd Bensman | December 31, 1998

THABA SEKA, Lesotho - Fall, 1988 -- In a vast, treeless wilderness of green mountains and broad, empty valleys, an unwashed waif of a boy squats alone in a ravine, watching ...
Forgotten Victims: African Tribe Wants Apology

Todd Bensman | December 31, 1998

OKAHANDJA, Namibia, Fall, 1988 -- In Europe, banks and governments are owning up to their complicity in Nazi crimes against Jews with reparations and apologies. In Asia, ...