Kavena Hambira, a filmmaker and descendant of Herero survivors, and Miriam Gleckman-Krut, a Jewish sociologist whose family was impacted by the Holocaust, co-authored a New York Times op-ed titled "Germany Apologized for a Genocide. It’s Nowhere Near Enough." The article aligns with the themes of Kavena's film Nut-Mi-Bee-Uhn, which delves into the history of Germany’s genocides in Southwest Africa and Europe. The film also encourages critical analysis of how knowledge about these atrocities is produced and examines its implications for impacted communities, contemporary politics in Europe and Namibia, and international law.

Kavena Hambira, MFA (he/him): With his work grounded in documentary filmmaking, Hambira seeks to connect nodes of history that tell a story of shared resilience and invention despite ongoing colonial and racial oppression. While his earlier work documented families impacted by police violence, his current focus is on the 20th century’s first genocide—the Herero and Nama Genocide, carried out by Germany in 1905 in his family’s native Namibia. Through film, Hambira bridges geography and time, illuminating the enduring legacies of the genocide and the ongoing pursuit of restitution and reconciliation.

A Fulbright scholar and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley’s MFA program, Hambira has taught courses on Germany's Genocides in Africa and Europe, Visual Storytelling, and Narrative Film/Video. He has worked as an adjunct professor at institutions including Colby College, California State University Stanislaus, and Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been featured in The New York Times, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, and other venues across the United States.

Dr. Miriam Gleckman-Krut (she/her) is a College Fellow in Social Studies at Harvard. She works at the intersection of the sociologies of sexuality, race, statecraft, and law, with substantive interests in colonial and postcolonial histories, migration, epistemology, and violence. She is writing a book about queer and trans displacement to South Africa. She also teaches with Kavena Hambira about the politics of Germany's efforts to erase evidence of its genocides in southern Africa and in Europe.