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Monumental Diplomacy

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Noma and the History of the Nation

Noma and other nemibian leaders faced a massive challenge in uniting people behind a new story about the nation. The history numibians had received from their colonizers taught them every single day that they were inferior and uncivilized. In two thousand one, numibias cabinet approved a plan to build a museum on the site of one of those colonial monuments. It was a deeply controversial statue of a german soldier called the writer dankma. Site also been a concentration camp where numibians were held by gerans in the early 19 hundreds.

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