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Herero may refer to:
- Herero people, a people belonging to the Bantu group, with about 240,000 members alive today
- Herero language, a language of the Bantu family (Niger-Congo group)
- Herero chat, a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae
- Herero Day, a gathering of the Herero people of Namibia to commemorate their deceased chieftains
- Herero Mall, an informal business area in the Katutura suburb of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia
- Herero and Namaqua Genocide
Usage examples of "herero".
The Herero boy, long tormented by missionaries into a fear of Christian sins, jackal-ghosts, potent European strand-wolves, pursuing him, seeking to feed on his soul, the precious worm that lived along his backbone, now tried to cage his old gods, snare them in words, give them away, savage, paralyzed, to this scholarly white who seemed so in love with language.
Others were taken back to Germany as servants, by soldiers who went to put down the great Herero rising of 1904-1906.
Enzian, which is one of many Herero words for shit, in this case a large, newly laid cow turd.
Germany, the ceremonial City, fourfold as expected, an eerie precision to all lines and shadings architectural and human, built in mandalic form like a Herero village, overhead a magnificent sky, marble carried to a wild-ness of white billow and candescence .
German forces were ordered to exterminate systematically every Herero man, woman and child they could find.
Out of the estimated 80,000 Hereros living in the territory in 1904, an official German census taken seven years later set the Herero population at only 15,130, this being a decrease of 64,870.
Before you disemboweled or whatever you did with her to be able to take a Herero girl before the eyes of your superior officer, and stay potent.
Before you disemboweled or whatever you did with her, to be able to take a Herero girl before the eyes of your superior officer, and stay potent.
Germans swarmed over the cattle-herding Herero tribes of the Southwest African region now known as Namibia.
By 1906 the original Herero population of 300,000 had been reduced to 20,000 landless fugitives, following numerous massacres and unequal battles between tribespeople with spears and German soldiers with guns and cannons.
And then she saw Herero horsemen galloping towards him and shouting and Mr Polopetsi, dusting himself off, trying hard to explain, pointing to the sky and gesturing.
For the Negro well remembers the treachery of von Trotha, who invited the Herero chiefs to come in and make peace and promptly shot them in cold blood.
The Kulturkampf, the Triple Alliance, and the Herero upris ing yield three color-saturated images.
Germany real Africans, Hereros, ex-colonials from South-West Africa, somehow active in the secret-weapons program.
Among the Ovatjimba, the poorest of the Hereros, with no cattle or villages of their own, the totem animal was the Erdschwein or aardvark.