For years, an ancient tribe of semi-nomadic herders known as the Himba has drawn photographers to Namibia’s barren northwest. As a result, the striking image of the Himba – if not their name – has ...

After years of travelling together across the globe, ticking off country after country, Namibia had long sat high on our bucket list. It was a dream destination, and as we finally landed, we knew we ...

In the desert of Namibia’s remote Kunene region bordering Angola, live the Himba, a fascinating, semi-nomadic people whose way of life has virtually remained unchanged from that of their ancestors.

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Eitha, a little Himba boy stands outside the ekraal, his homestead, while goats are being chased out to graze for the day.AAP We arrive in the Himba village in the late morning. Seven tribeswomen sit ...

Having survived genocide by German troops in the 1900s, Namibia's Himba people are now facing a bigger threat to their way of life - encroaching modernity. Little has changed in Omuhoro village for ...

ALMOST twenty-two years after Namibia gained its independence from colonial rule, a group of Ovahimba people living in the Kunene Region are yet to taste the fruits of Namibia's freedom. Approximately ...

For years, an ancient tribe of semi-nomadic herders known as the Himba has drawn photographers to Namibia’s barren northwest. As a result, the striking image of the Himba – if not their name – has ...

Namibia, in common with neighboring Botswana, is often lauded as an example of a country which has successfully negotiated the perils of post-independent statehood to take its place as a model citizen ...