Equestrian Monument
Equestrian Monument, Reiterdenkmal, at Alte Feste where the National Museum of Namibia is housed in Robert Mugabe Avenue, Windhoek, in the Khomas Region of Namibia, Africa. The monument has been removed from its base and placed in the courtyard. The monument honours the soldiers and civilians that died on the German side of the Herero and Namaqua War of 1904–1907.
The Reiterdenkmal has long been controversial. Its continued display of German superiority, as well as its one-sided reporting on the deaths in the first decade of the 20th century - Herero and Damara people lost fifty times as many lives as the Germans during the Herero and Namaqua War - attracted critical commentary, particularly since the 1980s.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved. Do not remove my signature from this image. Sharing only with credit please.
