Find out why this tribe in Namibia still wears Victorian Clothing!


 In 1892, colonists from Germany decided to take over Namibia- a country in Africa. Like most colonists, they decided that they now owned the area- and declared it "German-South West Africa" 


The natives were regarded as savages, and placed into concentration camps. 12-18 prisoners were executed daily. 80% of the prisoners did not survive- as the Germans held many racial experiments on them. 3000 skulls were sent back to Germany for inspection.


The Herero tribe took the brunt of this abuse, and after the treaty of Versailles- they were given their freedom. A tribe which measured at an estimated 80,000 now was at only 15,000.


The tribe decided to wear their German oppressors clothing as a constant reminder of what they had been through until this day

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