Shark Island, near the town of Lüderitz, is now a campsite for tourists, writes Rosanna Carver and Natache Lilonga ...

fashion lecturer at the University of Namibia. But it carried through the traditional values of the Herero people, such as that a woman should cover her body and not even show her knees ...

He initiated legislation allowing women to be able to hold fathers ... ignoring their past atrocities against the Herero and Nama people. Nujoma had the difficult task of attempting to unite Namibia’s ...

Black History Month provides a critical opportunity to challenge hegemonic historical narratives and amplify marginalised ...

Historians record that in 1904, the Herero and Nama people of Namibia, then known as German South-West Africa ... I will no longer take in women or children but will drive them back to their people or ...

Communities in the Kavango West region of northern Namibia have firsthand experience of the severe impacts of climate change. The dry, cracked soil and emaciated livestock provide a constant reminder ...

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s first president who led the country ... Germany’s compensation for its colonial-era genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples, as per AFP. A symbol of Africa’s ...

To support the government and the people of Namibia, particularly those most vulnerable, including nursing mothers, other women and children, the UN in Namibia, under my leadership, mobilized ...

Sam Nujoma, the revolutionary leader who guided Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died at 95. Hailed as Namibia’s ...

It was there that he was introduced to Herero tribal chief Hosea Kutako who was lobbying to end apartheid rule in Namibia, then known as South West Africa. Kutako became his mentor, shepherding ...