Adolf Hitler Uunona

Adolf Hitler Uunona

Adolf Hitler of Namibia wins council election

The German newspaper Bild has been speaking to a man called Adolf Hitler Uunona who has been elected as a local councillor for Namibia’s governing Swapo party.

The politician, who normally goes by the name Adolf Uunona, got 85% of the votes in last week’s election in Ompundja, a small town in the far north of the country.

Namibia is a former German colony and there are still reminders of that time in some placenames. There is also a small German-speaking minority.

“My father named me after this man. He probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for,” Mr Uunona told Bild.

“It was a very normal name for me as a child. It was not until I was growing up that I realised that this man wanted to subjugate the whole world. I have nothing to do with any of these things.”

The German occupation of Namibia, which ended after World War One and pre-dated Hitler’s rise to power, has bitter memories for the people there.

Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial forces killed more than 80% of Namibia’s Nama and Herero populations in what historians now call “the forgotten genocide”.

 

Editorial Chief, Nigerian Bureau

Kings UBA is a Nigerian journalist and writer. I have reported for major local and international news organisations. I write satire. In 2017, I started contributing stories primarily to Discover Africa News Network. I can be reached on editorkingsuba@gmail.com. I currently manage Discover Africa News social media handles