South West Africa

noun

1. another name for Namibia

Example Sentences

Control over South West Africa - along with what is now Cameroon, Togo and other colonial territories - was stripped from Germany by competing powers after World War One.

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Namibia, previously called South West Africa, suffered decades of looting and colonial violence at the hands of Europeans who had flocked to the country around the turn of the 20th Century.

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At the time, Namibia was known as South West Africa and its people were under occupation from South Africa.

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The war in South West Africa and Angola became a proxy for the ongoing Cold War and Western countries’ fear of communism spreading.

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Namibia faced apartheid when neighboring South Africa’s white minority government controlled what they called South West Africa.

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