ǁKhauxaǃnas

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Ruins of ǁKhauxaǃnas (1987)

ǁKhauxaǃnas is a historic, pre-colonial city of the Namibian tribe of the Nama from the 18th century, located in the Great Karas Mountains near Karasburg in southern Namibia.

ǁKhauxaǃnas was founded in the course of the founding of Cape Town and the migration of the Nama from the Cape Province under Klaas Afrikaner at the end of the 18th century as a mountain town that was difficult to access. After the northern migration of the Nama under Jonker Afrikaner around 1820, the ǁKhauxaǃnas fortress was taken over by the Veldschoendrager , who called it and the surrounding area as Schans Vlakte . During the wars in German South West Africa between 1904 and 1907, the fortress served as a retreat for the Nama under Jakobus Morenga .

ǁKhauxaǃnas is an important, often unexplored testimony to the culture and society in pre-colonial Southern Africa .

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  1. ↑ Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .

literature

  • Morengas Ende , in: Deutsches Kolonialblatt 19 (1908), pp. 1228–1233.
  • Klaus Dierks : ǁKhauxaǃnas - Schans Vlakte: oldest urban settlement in Namibia? InFormation, 1987/88, pp. 5-32.
  • Klaus Dierks: ǁKhauxaǃnas , Longman Namibia, Namibia 1992, ISBN 99916-1-006-5 .
  • Horst Drechsler : "Jacob Morenga: A new kind of South-West African leader." In: Afrika-Studien , ed. by W. Markov, Leipzig 1967, pp. 95-105.
  • Horst Drechsler: Uprisings in South West Africa: the struggle of the Herero and Nama from 1904 to 1907 against German colonial rule . Berlin: Dietz, 1984. - 180 pp. ISBN 3320004174 (p. 100 ff., P. 114 ff., P. 119 ff.)
  • Uwe Timm : Morenga , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2010, 10th edition, ISBN 978-3-423-12725-7 .
  • Uwe Timm: Morenga. Uprising in South West Africa , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 978-3499147050 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THE REDISCOVERY OF || KHAUXA! NAS. Klaus Dierks. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. Klaus Dierks. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
  3. ↑ THE HISTORY OF || KHAUXA! NAS. Klaus Dierks. Retrieved May 16, 2017.

Coordinates: 27 ° 16 ′  S , 19 ° 18 ′  E