Andreas Eckl, Essen
Wolfram Hartmann, Windhoek
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Christo Botha, Windhoek
Greg Cuthbertson, Pretoria
Tilman Dedering, Pretoria
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Dag Henrichsen, Basel
Andre du Pisani, Windhoek
Chris Saunders, Cape Town
Jake Short, Athens (USA)
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Carol Kotze
Jennifer Perry
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Humanitarianism in the age of empire
Deutsch-Südwestafrika & L’Ètat Indépendant du Congo
David Bargueño
Abstract
Humanitarianism has neither a single past nor predetermined future. As the bastard child of the Enlightenment and Christianity, national foreign policies and non-governmental organisations, the early development of humanitarianism is often written entirely within the confines of Europe, with no reference to events in Africa. A familiar cast of heroes crusades against an equally familiar backdrop of horrors, such as Henry Dunant’s campaign for the Red Cross Movement beginning in 1863. Simultaneous events, such as European expansion into Africa, fall outside the landscape of this history. The goal of the present article is to show how histories of humanitarianism in the former Congo Free State and German Southwest Africa shed light on the varied influences, priorities, and strategies of selective acts of compassion during the first decade of the twentieth century. What becomes abundantly clear, in turn, is the absence of any single humanitarian consensus at the fin de siècle.
Journal of Namibian Studies, 9 (2011): 17 - 60
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