Namibia has one of the world’s lowest populations at just 2.5 million, with most people living in rural areas and the country’s quasi-uninhabited vast deserts.
A small population of around 50,000 Himba people (also known as the Ovahimba) mainly live in northwestern Namibia and southern Angola.
As a resourceful and incredibly resilient people, they have been moving and staying in harmony with the seasons for centuries. Namibia has nine different ethnic groups but the Himba are considered to be the last remaining semi-nomadic tribe in the country.
Like other tribes, they survived a brutal genocide by German troops in the 1900s which almost obliterated numbers – even today acceptable reparations remain undecided. They also endured the effects of war during Namibian independence known as the South African border war, from 1966 to 1990, and the Angolan civil war from 1975 to 2002.
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