Jephta U. Nguherimo: The Struggle Continues. Transgenerational Memory of the Ovaherero People’s Genocide (TraCe) | 17 June 2025

Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 6pm CET
Campus Westend, Casino 1.811

Jephta U. Nguherimo (TraCe)

Jephta U. Nguherimo is a reparation activist, poet and a former professional labor negotiator of Herero-descent based in Washington D.C. He has been instrumental in the reparation movement for the OvaHerero and Nama genocides over the last three decades and was the co-founder of the OvaHerero, Ovambanderu, and Nama Genocide Institute (ongi.org) in the US. Beside this, he organized conferences and other platforms that eventually forced the German government to confront and acknowledge the Genocide of 1904-08.

In his collaborative activist-scholar work he has produced a series of papers with TraCe member Kaya de Wolff which they jointly presented at academic conferences including the “New Perspectives of Memory Studies and Social Movements & Conflict Studies in Dialogue Conference in Berlin” (September and October 2023) and “Rethinking our communicative past. Radical and Reparatory Approaches” (April 2024, Loughborough University London). He was invited to speak as a guest lecturer of the TraCe-Roundtable “Rethinking Cosmopolitan Memory in Postcolonial Contexts” at Goethe University Frankfurt, 2+3 May 2024, where he also engaged in a workshop with members of the TraCe working area Memories of Political Violence. Following up on these fruitful conversations, Astrid Erll and Kaya de Wolff invited him to be a TraCe visiting fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt from October 2024 to December 2024.

The fourth TraCe lec­ture series “Trans­formations of Political Vio­lence: New Perspec­tives” will pre­sent new approaches to the changing forms, insti­tutions and inter­pretations of political vio­lence, which are exa­mined in the con­text of TraCe. The lec­ture series com­bines inter­disciplinary perspec­tives from history, sociology, po­litical science and cul­tural studies with ac­tivist voices.