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So-called "ethnic conflicts" are hardly ever really ethnic even in Africa but are stirred up by those in power who conceal their own interests behind this lable.
The objective behind the current project "Family histories in Fransfontein", directed by Dr Michael Schnegg and Dr Julia Pauli (Institut für Völkerkunde - Institute of Ethnography, University of Cologne) is to back up this insight with scientific
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research and to make the results accessible to the local population.
Genealogy is a research tool and can be used to decipher the history of a place or region in an exemplary fashion. In this case it is the village of Fransfontein in the north west of Namibia. For more than a hundred years people have lived there who came from other areas as a result of
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