The Herero are a relatively small group: only around 179,000 remain, less than six percent of Namibia's population, according to the 2023 census. "I feel they fell in love with the dress, they are ...

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 ...

In 1904, chief Samuel Maharero led the Herero people in a revolt against exploitation and land appropriation by the Germans. In the same year, Namibia's Nama people also staged an uprising.

South Africa had controlled Namibia since World War I after a brutal few decades of German colonial rule remembered for the genocide of the Herero and Nama people. As a boy he looked after his ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Surviving Herero after an escape through the arid desert of Omaheke in German Southwest ...

Namibia's population comprises a rich ethnic and cultural diversity, with various ethnic groups such as the Ovambo, Herero, ...

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 ...

Namibia's first president Sam Nujoma, who died Saturday aged 95, was revered for leading his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.

he criticised as insufficient a one-billion-euro settlement offered by Germany in compensation for its colonial-era genocide of Herero and Nama peoples from 1904 to 1908. "Namibia must return to ...