Namibia pulls down German colonial statue after protests – who was Curt von François?

By Henning Melber, Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria

Anti-colonial activists in Namibia – calling themselves A Curt Farewell – have scored a victory after a statue of a colonial German officer, Curt von François, was removed from outside the Windhoek City Council in the country’s capital. The country was under German colonial rule before being governed by apartheid…

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