The Himba (singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) are an indigenous people with an estimated population of about 50,000 people[1] living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene Region (formerly Kaokoland) and on the other side of the Kunene River in southern Angola.[1] There are also a few groups left of the OvaTwa, who the OvaHimba consider to be part of their tribe, but are hunter-gatherers. Culturally distinguishable from the Herero people, the OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoralist people and speak OtjiHimba, a variety of Herero, which belongs to the Bantu family within Niger–Congo.[1] The OvaHimba are semi-nomadic as they have base homesteads where crops are cultivated, but may have to move within the year depending on rainfall and where there is access to water.
The OvaHimba are considered the last (semi-) nomadic people of Namibia.
^ abcdKamaku Consultancy Services cc., Commissioned by: Country Pilot Partnership (CPP) Programme Namibia (2011). Strategies That Integrate Environmental Sustainability Into National Development Planning Process to Address Livelihood Concerns of the OvaHimba Tribe in Namibia - A Summary(PDF). Windhoek, Namibia: The Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Republic of Namibia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
The Himba (singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) are an indigenous people with an estimated population of about 50,000 people living in northern Namibia...
(1/4 of the national average). The most represented ethnic group is the Himbapeople, who account for about 5,000 of the overall 16,000 inhabitants of Kaokoland...
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Namibia. They also include the Zambezi people and Kavango people. Other ethnic groups are the Herero and Himbapeople, who speak a similar language, and the...
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Proto-Bantu language for these words. Herero peopleHimbapeople Nama people Oorlam people Namibia: People and Society, CIA Factbook, United States; "about...
in towns throughout Namibia. Other ethnic groups are the Herero and Himbapeople, who speak the related Herero language, and the Damara, who, like the...
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region of Omaheke along with the Otjozondjupa and Kunene Regions. The Himbapeople, who are related to the Herero and Mbanderu, speak a dialect very close...
Kamanjab. Kunene is home to the Himbapeople, a subtribe of the Herero, as well as to Damara people and Nama people. As of 2020[update], Kunene had 58...
refers to the Tjimba people, non-Herero hunter-gatherers who speak Zemba. The spelling Himba should be distinguished from the Himbapeople and their dialect...
Communal Land Reform Act of 2002. Tjimba peopleHimbapeople Herero people "Chapter 5. The Himba and Zemba People" (PDF). University of Pretoria. Pretoria...
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monotheism. The Tikar people of Cameroon have a traditional spirituality that emphasizes the worship of a single god, Nyuy. The Himbapeople of Namibia practice...
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documenting Nenets people in Siberia, Himbapeople in Namibia, the Achuar people in Ecuador and the Karim, Yokoim and Chimbu peoples in Papua New Guinea...
Havakona, Zimba and Himba. None of the individuals I have observed differs physically from the neighboring Bantu. These peoples live in desert environments...
discernible for most people. The Himba have created a very different color scheme which divides the spectrum to dark shades (zuzu in Himba), very light (vapa)...
state. The oral traditions of the Himbapeople recall two droughts from 1910 to 1917. From 1910 to 1911 the Himba described the drought as "drought of...
The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages...
Damaraland. A number of tribes remained in Kaokoland: these were the Himbapeople, who are still there today. During German occupation of South West Africa...
cultures around the world. Specifically taking inspiration from the Himbapeople of Namibia, he implemented elements such as fine ornaments and a fur...
nuts. Palm nuts (Elaeis guineensis), important famine food among the Himbapeople in Africa. Red bopple nut (Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia), native to the...
prestigious university in space. In Binti, Binti is the first member of the Himbapeople to be accepted into the prestigious intergalactic university Oomza Uni...
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