Bantu-speaking pastoralist people of central Namibia (Damaraland/Hereroland), organized in the 19th century under a paramount chieftaincy (Maharero, from 1863) that fought recurrent wars with Nama/Orlam groups before German colonization.
Not an ending: the Herero endure in Namibia despite the 1904-08 German genocide. The map hands off to the states covering their lands.
Standard scholarly social history of the Herero from the mid-19th century through the German colonial period
Focused study of the pre-colonial 19th-century Herero polity and its territorial/political organization
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