Restoration and Resilience – Panel Discussion

• Restoration and Resilience – Panel Discussion •

Part III of the panel discussion series ‘Trilogy to the Future’

Information by the organisers, Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Namibia (FES):

Restoration and Resilience

In our final dialogue, we turn toward restoration and resilience, what it means to carry the weight of history while still imagining a future rooted in justice, healing, and dignity.

With contributions from a language activist and artist, and a descendant of the Ovaherero-Nama genocide, we will explore how memory lives in the body, in culture, and in community, and how resilience is both inheritance and intention.

Panelists:
Nesindao Namises, Artist & Language Activist (LinkedIn Profile)
Uendjii Black, Descendant of Ovaherero-Nama Genocide Survivors (LinkedIn Profile)

“How can Namibia rebuild cultural identity, dignity, and trust for affected populations.”

Friday, 15 August 2025
14:00 – 15:30
at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), Auditorium 3, Brahms St, Windhoek West
C3PG+24H

Due to limited seats, kindly confirm attendance in advance with:
muhindaashley@gmail.com, +264 81 482 0435

Editor’s note

Reading tips:

# Sarala Krishnamurthy (Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at NUST; see her LinkedIn Profile): Defined, or Disrupted? Investigating post-memory and transgenerational trauma in Herero Nama Genocide survivor family narratives, published in Eckl Häussler Akawa (eds.) (2024): An Unresolved Issue, which is freely available as a PDF download.

# See also the report “Transgenerational Trauma Among Descendants of the 1904-1908 Genocide” by the Namibian on the panel discussion “‘Psychological Implications of Genocide” (part I of the NID & FES discussion series ‘Trilogy to the Future’), in the ‘Media Reports’ section of this website