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    Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority...
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  • 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...
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    Oshi-. After Namibia's independence in 1990, the area previously known as Ovamboland was divided into the Ohangwena, Omusati, Oshana and Oshikoto Regions....
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    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...
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  • The Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO) was a nationalist organization that existed between 1959 and 1960 in South West Africa (present day Namibia)...
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    black intelligentsia in Windhoek. Meanwhile, the Ovamboland People's Congress (later the Ovamboland People's Organisation, or OPO) was formed by nationalists...
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    African Security Branch or Special Task Force, and black volunteers from Ovamboland. Koevoet was patterned after the Selous Scouts, a multiracial Rhodesian...
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  • Nabot Manasse or Nabot Shiyoma (b. Ovamboland, Namibia — died 30 January 1958) was one of the first seven Ovambo pastors, whom the director of the Finnish...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • missionary work in Ovamboland. Väänänen's parents, missionaries Nestor Wäänänen and Martta Wäänänen, had worked as in Ovamboland, Nestor during 1907–1918...
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  • Ondonga royal family Country Ovamboland, Namibia Current head Fillemon Shuumbwa Nangolo Titles King, natively: Omukwaniilwa...
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    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...
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    1950s. In 1959, he co-founded and served as the first president of the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO), a nationalist organization advocating an...
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    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...
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  • People's Organisation (SWAPO) in 1960, and before that, its predecessor the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO) in 1959. Andimba grew up in the northern part...
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    assigned "autonomy" but never granted "independence". In South West Africa, Ovamboland, Kavangoland, and East Caprivi were declared to be self-governing, with...
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    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...
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  • Christianity → Catholicism Ovambo Niger–Congo → Bantu → Ovambo Namibia (Ovamboland), Angola Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism Ovimbundu Niger–Congo...
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  • Self-governance East Caprivi Kavangoland Ovamboland No self-governance Bushmanland Damaraland Hereroland Kaokoland Namaland Rehoboth Tswanaland Post-1980...
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  • 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...
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    on 7 March 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2024. Fokkens, Andries (2023). "The ovamboland expedition of 1917: the deposing of King Mandume". Small Wars & Insurgencies...
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    San peoples who live mostly on the western edge of the Kalahari desert, Ovamboland (northern Namibia and southern Angola), and Botswana. The names ǃKung...
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    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...
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  • Self-governance East Caprivi Kavangoland Ovamboland No self-governance Bushmanland Damaraland Hereroland Kaokoland Namaland Rehoboth Tswanaland Post-1980...
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  • Sekele Northern ǃKung Native to Namibia, Angola Region Okavango and Ovamboland Territory Native speakers 20,000 (2013–2019) Language family Kxʼa ǃKung...
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  • Iihuhua, pastor in Ovamboland, ordained 1925 Sakeus Iihuhua, pastor in Ovamboland, ordained 1925 Gideon Iitula, pastor in Ovamboland, ordained 1925 Zephania...
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    against the former right of any German master to punish any servant. Ovamboland had remained outside of the area of German police surveillance (the "Police...
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    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...
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  • Approximately 25,000 workers participated in the strike, primarily those from Ovamboland in the country's densely-populated north. The strike continued into the...
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