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    The Herero (Otjiherero: Ovaherero) are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa. There were an estimated 250,000 Herero people in Namibia...
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    The Herero and Nama genocide (formerly, also 'Herero and Namaqua genocide') was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was...
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    The Herero Wars were a series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South West Africa (present-day Namibia). They...
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    with Germany, Witbooi never waivered in his decision to confront the Herero people. Witbooi was campaigning for his tribe's supremacy in the colony and...
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    Herero (Otjiherero) is a Bantu language spoken by the Herero and Mbanderu peoples in Namibia and Botswana, as well as by small communities of people in...
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    distinguishable from the Herero people, the OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoralist people and speak OtjiHimba, a variety of Herero, which belongs to the...
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    do evil by sending them to his messenger of death, Shadapinyi. The Herero people of Namibia believe in the Supreme God Njambi Kurunga, whom they also...
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    linguistic and historical relationship to the Herero people found in more southern parts of Namibia, and Kavango people to their east settled around the Okavango...
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    have found that Damara are closely related to neighbouring Himba and Herero people, consistent with an origin from Bantu speakers who shifted to a different...
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    Samuel Maharero (category People of the Herero and Namaqua genocide)
    of the Herero people in German South West Africa (today Namibia) during their revolts and in connection with the events surrounding the Herero genocide...
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    rebellions by its native African peoples, which culminated in a campaign of German reprisals from 1904 to 1908 known as the Herero and Namaqua genocide. In 1915...
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  • Look up Herero or herero in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Herero may refer to: Herero people, a people belonging to the Bantu group, with about 240...
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    Hereroland (category Herero people)
    Hereros, in South West Africa (present day Namibia), intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Herero people....
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    OvaHerero people. The demarcation became a political boundary in 1907, after the Reichstag in Berlin passed a resolution in 1905 during the Herero Wars...
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  • and agricultural implements. During the 17th century the Herero, a pastoral, nomadic people keeping cattle, moved into Namibia. They came from the east...
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    the Namib Desert. The specific name herero, is the name of the Herero people who live in the Namib Desert. The Herero chat has a length of 17 cm (6.7 in)...
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  • Mukuru is the Supreme Creator (God) of the Himba and Herero people of Namibia. The Himba and Herero worship a god named Mukuru. Mukuru is the creator of...
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    Herero Day (also known as Red Flag Day and Red Flag Heroes' Day, Otjiherero: Otjiserandu) is a gathering of the Herero people of Namibia to commemorate...
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  • today inhabit Namibia. The Ovambo people left this area first and settled in the north of today's Namibia, the Herero people left after that, and the Ovambanderu...
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    The Mucubal people (also Mucubai, Mucabale or Mugubale) are a subgroup of the Herero people in southern Angola. Like the Masai, to whom they are said...
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    Herero cattle herds used to graze on the local bush that turned their milk bitter. Omaruru is known for its annual festival where the Herero people commemorate...
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    Himba people originated from this Angolan Herero group. In 1884, Kaokoland became part of German South West Africa, and the Namibian Herero people changed...
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    Oshiwambo name of a traditional mancala board game played by the Nama people, Herero people, Rukwangali speakers, and other ethnic groups from Namibia (and...
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  • Leaders of Hereroland (category Herero people)
    West Africa, when Hereroland was a bantustan (a designated area for Herero people settlement), a political representative was appointed by the South African...
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    Hosea Kutako (category Herero people)
    appointed as leader of the Herero people by Frederik Maharero. Mahahero had been empowered to transfer power by his father, Herero chief Samuel Maharero,...
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    political party founded in 1959. Most of its members came from the Herero people, while fellow independence movement SWAPO was mostly an Ovambo party...
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    Lothar von Trotha (category Herero Wars)
    suppressed a native rebellion during the Herero Wars. He was widely condemned for his brutality in the Herero Wars, particularly for his role in the genocide...
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    Otjimbingwe (section People)
    settlement in South West Africa. In the 1860s the Herero people, facing an imminent attack from the Nama people, united here and elected Maharero first their...
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  • Battle of Waterberg (category Herero Wars)
    Namibia), and was the decisive battle in the German campaign against the Herero. The German Imperial Forces were under the command of Lieutenant General...
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    Namibia), during the Scramble for Africa. On January 12, 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero, rebelled against German colonialism. In August...
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