How to Use Herero in a Sentence

Herero

noun
  • The Herero massacre wasn’t even really talked about until mid-1990s.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • As Saramandi points out, the Herero war crimes are written in a powerful, furious voice.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • This was an elite capture, in order to enable a colonial ethnographic museum that literally contained the bones of the Herero.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 10 June 2026
  • The performance and video series addresses femicide killings of trans and gay people in South Africa as well as the Herero and Nama massacre conducted by German colonial forces in the 1900s in what is now Namibia.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The performance and video series addresses femicide killings of trans and gay people in South Africa as well as the Herero and Nama massacre conducted by German colonial forces in the 1900s in what is now Namibia.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 19 Feb. 2026
  • As the nation embarks on a new tourism push, African Parks, which has managed Iona since 2019, is spearheading biodiversity restoration—including the reintroduction of the Angola giraffe—and projects with the local Himba and Herero communities.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Conceived in 2015, Goliath’s Elegy comprises performance and video, and addresses femicide killings of trans and gay people in South Africa as well as the Herero and Nama massacre conducted by German colonial forces in the 1900s in what is now Namibia.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 25 Mar. 2026
  • While the versions of Elegy concerning the South African femicide and the Herero and Nama genocide appear as one- and two-channel works, a new edition mourning the death of Gazan poet Hiba Abu Nada—who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in October 2023—takes center stage.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026

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