Memorial to Nama and Ovaherero killed at Shark Island. Photo by Matthew Hendricks, used with permission. On May 28, Namibian Information and Communication Technology Minister Emma Theofelus announced that, from next year, 2025, the 28th of May will be a public holiday, to be known as Genocide Remembrance Day. The day is meant to commemorate all those Nama and Ovaherero people killed during the 1904–1908 genocide engineered by colonial Germany. The announcement comes some three decades after Namibia first gained independence from apartheid-South Africa. The question, therefore, emerges: Why did…