that are bartered for goods such as sugar, tea, and tobacco. Chickens are kept for their meat and eggs. Herero in fiction A group of Herero living in Germany who were inducted into the German military during the Second World War play a major part in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. The genocide under von Trotha plays a major role in another novel by the same author, V.. German author Uwe Timm's novel Morenga, set in German southwest Africa, includes several Herero characters. A Portuguese-Herero mestiço protagonist is featured in Guy Saville's novel The Afrika Reich. The fictional story takes place in a 1952 Africa largely conquered by the Nazis who came away from World War II politically and economically empowered and relatively unopposed. In the historical novel Mama Namibia by Mari Serebrov, two perspectives of the 1904 genocide in German Southwest Africa are shown. The first is that of Jahohora, a 12-year-old Herero girl who survives alone in the veld for two years after her family is killed by German soldiers. The second is that of Kov, a Jewish doctor who volunteered to serve in the German military to prove his patriotism. As he witnesses the atrocities of the genocide, he rethinks his loyalty to the Fatherland. The Treatment of the Herero by German colonists is the subject of the 2012 play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury. See also History of Namibia Herero Day References Further reading Rachel Anderson, "Redressing Colonial Genocide Under International Law: The Hereros' Cause of Action Against Germany", 93 California Law Review 1155 (2005). S. Passarge, Südafrika, (Oldenburg and Leipzig, 1908) Hans Schinz, Deutsch Südwest-Afrika, (Oldenburg and Leipzig, 1891) Herero people External links Africa on the Matrix: Herero People of Namibia—Photographs and information. Ethnic groups divided by international borders