Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority...

Ovamboland, or Ovambo, was a Bantustan or "homeland" and later a second-tier authority in South West Africa for the Ovambo people during the apartheid...

The Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO) was a nationalist organization that existed between 1959 and 1960 in South West Africa (present day Namibia)...

Oshi-. After Namibia's independence in 1990, the area previously known as Ovamboland was divided into the Ohangwena, Omusati, Oshana and Oshikoto Regions....

African Security Branch or Special Task Force, and black volunteers from Ovamboland. Koevoet was patterned after the Selous Scouts, a multiracial Rhodesian...

number of kindred Bantu ethnic tribes who inhabit what was formerly called Ovamboland. In Angola, they are a minority, accounting for about two percent of the...

black intelligentsia in Windhoek. Meanwhile, the Ovamboland People's Congress (later the Ovamboland People's Organisation, or OPO) was formed by nationalists...

as the Diocese of Damaraland. Most of the Anglicans in Namibia live in Ovamboland in the north of the country and speak the Oshikwanyama language. The first...

Ondonga royal family Country Ovamboland, Namibia Current head Fillemon Shuumbwa Nangolo Titles King, natively: Omukwaniilwa...

1950s. In 1959, he cofounded and served as the first president of the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO), a nationalist organization advocating an...

missionary work in Ovamboland. Väänänen's parents, missionaries Nestor Wäänänen and Martta Wäänänen, had worked as in Ovamboland, Nestor during 1907–1918...

Onandjokwe Hospital in the Ondonga tribal area in Ovamboland. She also worked in the Engela Hospital. In Ovamboland, she was known as Kuku Selma ‘grandmother...

Party (NDP) is a political party in Namibia. It was formed in 1973 as the Ovamboland Independence Party (OIP) by Silas Ipumbu. It took the name NDP to contest...

Christianity → Catholicism Ovambo Niger–Congo → Bantu → Ovambo Namibia (Ovamboland), Angola Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism Ovimbundu Niger–Congo...

Finland on 31 January 1900 and arrived in Ovamboland on 22 June the same year. During his first term in Ovamboland, Liljeblad founded the Onayena mission...

Sekele Northern ǃKung Native to Namibia, Angola Region Okavango and Ovamboland Territory Native speakers 20,000 (2013–2019) Language family Kxʼa ǃKung...

black Namibian to be appointed to this position. Shivute was born in Ovamboland in South West Africa (now Namibia). At the age of 16, he went into exile...

San peoples who live mostly on the western edge of the Kalahari desert, Ovamboland (northern Namibia and southern Angola), and Botswana. The names ǃKung...

People's Organisation (SWAPO) in 1960, and before that, its predecessor the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO) in 1959. After growing up in northern Namibia...

became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras. It was bordered roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the...

on 7 March 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2024. Fokkens, Andries (2023). "The ovamboland expedition of 1917: the deposing of King Mandume". Small wars & Insurgencies...

mean the end of the Ondonga area. (Ondonga is one of the kingdoms of Ovamboland), and Ondangwa is located on the western edge of this kingdom. Ondangwa...

assigned "autonomy" but never granted "independence". In South West Africa, Ovamboland, Kavangoland, and East Caprivi were declared to be self-governing, with...

that occurred in Omashaka, a village five miles north of Ondangwa in Ovamboland, South West Africa on March 27, 1981, when a black soldier killed eight...

Self-governance East Caprivi Kavangoland Ovamboland No self-governance Bushmanland Damaraland Hereroland Kaokoland Namaland Rehoboth Tswanaland Post-1980...

Olukonda, South West Africa) was the pioneer of the Finnish Mission in Ovamboland, South West Africa. Rautanen was born in a poor Finnish family in Ingria...

and Bank Windhoek. Shikongo was born on 26 June 1950, in Ondangwa in Ovamboland (today Oshana Region). He completed school at Ongwediva High School and...

Self-governance East Caprivi Kavangoland Ovamboland No self-governance Bushmanland Damaraland Hereroland Kaokoland Namaland Rehoboth Tswanaland Post-1980...

Approximately 25,000 workers participated in the strike, primarily those from Ovamboland in the country's densely-populated north. The strike continued into the...

fighter and political prisoner. He was one of the co-founders of the Ovamboland People's Congress in Cape Town, South Africa and became one of the first...