Geography & Demography
Namibia is situated in the southwestern part of the African Continent, bordered by Angola in the north, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in the northeast, Botswana in the east, and South Africa in the south. The
Namibian food is rather varied in cuisine, because of the vastness of ethnicities. Thus, it has grown internationally and accommodates also the White Afrikaner and German cuisines equally. Including various seafood dishes from the coast. Due to colonial history, German
Most Namibian musicians gain their first musical experiences in church choirs, as music was and is hardly taught in schools.
During the 1950’s musicians in Namibia often played music by just hearing and feeling it because they had
John Ndevasia Muafangejo was an artist from Namibia who was internationally known for woodcut prints like the one below.
John Muafangejo was born 5 October 1943 in Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola .
After his father
Tuli Mekondjo is a self-taught Namibian mixed media artist. That means she uses different materials and media.
She creates her works using embroidery, collage, paint, resin and mahangu grain – a Namibian food staple.
Tuli
Johana Benson was born on 17 Feb 1990 in Walvisbay Namibia, at a very young age she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
Coming from an athletic family she always loved sports. At Kuisebmund Secondary school she took part
There are few records of pre-colonial Namibian history. Much of it is oral knowledge transmitted from generation to generation and some of the things we know or at least assume today is based on archeological findings.
On 23 September 1828, the Rhenish Missionary Society was founded in Elberfeld (the town is now part of Wuppertal).
The missionaries who belonged to it played an important role in Germany’s later colonial history.
As early as
For a long time, the Nama and the Herero have been asking for an apology from Germany for the mass killings that took place from 1904 till 1908.
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