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	Ovambo (Namibia) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ovambo was the first of the "Homelands" in South West Africa to acquire its own symbols of sovereignty.
		The width of the Ovambo flag shall be equal to two-thirds of its length.
		Ovambo was re-incorporated into Namibia at independence on 21 March 1990 and as such this flag is no longer in use.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/na-ovamb.html (237 words)

	Initiation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ritual dealt with the transition between girlhood and womanhood in Ovambo societies on the northern floodplain, grappling with issues of sex and death, generation and regeneration, and its implications were understood to embrace the entire social body.
		Ovambo polities were very well-connected with the outside world in terms of regional and long-distance trade, and were strong enough to keep German and Portuguese colonial ambitions at bay and other potential intruders at a distance.
		The Ovambo groups settled on the Cuvelai floodplain since at least the fifteenth century, probably longer, possessed two features that were of crucial importance in the way efundula became intertwined in society and history.
	www.gwsafrica.org /knowledge/patricia/efprint.htm (12692 words)

	Ovambo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ovambo culture consists of eight kindred tribes, which inhabit Ovamboland in northern Namibia in Africa.
		The Ovambo people have been able to adapt to their land and their environment.
		Traditionally, the Ovambo people lived a life that was highly influenced by their magico-religious influences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ovambo (802 words)

	Angola - Ovambo, Nyaneka-Humbe, Herero, and Others (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ovambo, of which the largest subgroup were the Kwanhama (also spelled Kwanyama), made up an estimated 2 percent of the Angolan population.
		Although the Ovambo had depended in part on cultivation for a much longer time, dairy products had been an important source of subsistence, and cattle were the chief measure of wealth and prestige.
		The greatest resistance to the Portuguese was offered by the Ovambo, who were not made fully subject to colonial rule until 1915 and who earned a considerable reputation among the Portuguese and other Africans for their efforts to maintain their independence.
	countrystudies.us /angola/64.htm (577 words)

	Govt asks farmers to move to defuse ethnic tension (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the Ovambo farmers fear an uncertain future as they prepare to trek to their traditional territory in the northwestern part of the country with about 60,000 head of cattle.
		The Ovambo claim they were forced off their traditional land in northwestern Namibia by rich farmers and government officials, who allegedly demarcated large tracts of land for themselves.
		The Ovambo said they had been forced to occupy land in the Kavango region after rich farmers, including top government officials, had allegedly fenced off large tracts of land in their ethnic territory, right up to the Angolan border.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=49775 (630 words)

	Kwanyama Iron Working (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A sub-group of the Ovambo, the Kwanyama straddle the present-day border of Angola and Namibia between the Cunene and Cubango Rivers and north of Etosha Pan.
		The surest sign that Ovambo relations with Bushmen were free of the extreme forms of discrimination that characterized those with their other neighbors was the relative frequency of intermarriage at all social levels (Heintze 1972; Gordon 1992:26ff; but cf.
		While most of the Ovambo and Cubango populations were brought under effective Portuguese rule in the period 1906-1909, the Kwanyama resisted until conquered by a large contingent of metropolitan troops in 1915, on the eve of a devastating famine that engulfed the entire region in 1915-1916.
	era.anthropology.ac.uk /Era_Resources/Era/P-C_Museum/herbert.html (6832 words)

	Ovambo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ovambo culture is a very unique and interesting society.
		The Ovambo people live a life that is 100 percent influenced by their magico-religious influences.
		Everyone in the Ovambo tribe believes in a Supreme spirit, known as Kalunga.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/ovambo.html (518 words)

	Medical Culture of the Ovambo
		This thesis focusses on the medical culture of the Ovambo peoples of southern Angola and northern Namibia, a group who have been little-researched anthropologically.
		Ovambo beliefs and practises relating to health and health maintenance are therefore discussed, as well as external (i.e.
		Particular attention has been paid to Ovambo use of plants as medicines, as well as to their prophylactic and propitiatory measures, since these are areas of ethnomedical research that are identified as being under-researched.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /csacpub/Davies_thesis (496 words)

	Namibia HISTORY
		The Damara also claim to be the true indigenous Namibians, who were compelled to welcome waves of Herero and Ovambo from the north.
		By the 19th century, the Damara, Ovambo, and Herero were the largest indigenous ethnic groups.
		There was competition for land, mostly between the Ovambo and the Herero.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Namibia-HISTORY.html (1489 words)

	Ethnic Groups in Namibia.
		The Ovambo are a branch of the Bantu people who came here in the 16th century from East Africa.
		Traditionally, they are farmers and on the relatively fertile soils of the north, grow mainly maize, sorghum, millet, pumpkins, beans and melons.
		The white minority doesn't have political power anymore, however, they are still economically in the lead, especially in key sectors like agriculture, trade, mining and tourism.
	www.namibia-travel.net /namibia/people_info.htm (673 words)

	Namibia (11/04)
		The principal groups are the Ovambo, Kavango, Herero/Himba, Damara, mixed race ("colored" and Rehoboth Baster), white (Afrikaner, German, and Portuguese), Nama, Caprivian, San, and Tswana.
		The Ovambo, Kavango, and East Caprivian peoples, who occupy the relatively well-watered and wooded northern part of the country, are settled farmers and herders.
		The Bantu-speaking Ovambo and Herero migrated from the north in about the 14th century A.D. The inhospitable Namib Desert constituted a formidable barrier to European exploration until the late 18th century, when successions of travelers, traders, hunters, and missionaries explored the area.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/n/40393.htm (4064 words)

	Ovambo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ovambo originates in Ovamboland in Northern Namibia, from whence I received my first hatching eggs and chickens in 1975 from Dr. J.J. Joubert who had been given some while visiting the region.
		They are thus obviously a lighter breed while it is speculated that their predominantly dark colouring is attributed to natural selection where all light coloured individuals were conspicuous and fell prey to raptors.
		Like the Venda, the Ovambo is adapted to surviving on insects, edible weeds, greens and household scraps and is endowed with considerable resistance to disease.
	www.feathersite.com /Poultry/CGK/Ovambo/BRKOvambo.html (244 words)

	Oshakati, Ondangwa and Four O Region in Namibia
		Ovamboland", the former homeland of the Ovambo people north of the Etosha Pan, was divided up into the districts of Omusati, Ohangwena, Oshana and Oshikoto post Namibian independence and is nowadays known as the "Four O Region".
		The Ovambo once came from East Africa to settle here in the 15th century.
		The Ovambo bore the brunt of Namibia's independence struggle and thousands of lives were lost.
	www.namibia-travel.net /northnamibia/oshakati.htm (355 words)

	AEGiS-AFP News: Africa-AIDS: Some African communities remain in AIDS denial - November 30, 2002
		The Himbas-Herreros, one of 11 tribes in Namibia, which has 1.8 million people, keep to themselves, a minority in the north, which is dominated by the Ovambo, the tribe of President Sam Nujoma.
		Vetuetera recognises that AIDS is a threat to her people, but only to those in contact with the Ovambo -- the young who go off to the towns, or enrol in the army.
		As a result, the people of the village tend to keep their daughters at home after primary school rather than sending them away to secondary schools.
	www.aegis.com /news/afp/2002/AF0211D2.html (782 words)

	Namibia - History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Southwestern Africa was occupied first by San (Bushmen) and Khoikhoi peoples, Ovambo in the north and the Bantu-speaking Herero.
		The Ovambo, farmers who developed several kingdoms along both banks of the Kunene river, were a constant threat for the unity of the Herero.
		Despite protests from the opposition, the Constitution was modified so that Nujoma could run for a third Presidential term in the 1999 elections, which he won with 76 per cent of the vote.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/countries/nam/History.stm (2223 words)

	Toward a Namibian Settlement
		Moreover, the Ovambo account for approximately 42 percent of the Namibian population.
		Thus, while an independence agreement must ensure elections, it must also prevent the Ovambo from abusing their numerical strength by suppressing all of SWAPO's critics and opponents Never before has Pretoria been so close to agree On the.
		Hereroes and Bushmen, in particular, harbor long- standing animosity towards the Ovambo, while SWAPO's Marxist orientation and its close ties with Moscow can be expected to I 6 alienate the territory's white and colored middle class faced with a SWAPO/Ovambo-dominated central government, the other groups will be tempted to use violence to make themselves heard.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Africa/bg167.cfm (2433 words)

	Military Chronicle of South-West Africa
		The Thirties: Insurrection in Ovambo and the Establishment of the SWA Command
		Altogether 56 terrorists were arrested within a week of their arrival in Ovambo and PLAN thereafter operated in smaller groups.
		Requests received by the SADF for assistance in the field of agriculture, resulted in the utilisation of agricultural extension officers, veterinary surgeons and agricultural technicians.
	www.rhodesia.nl /swatf.htm (8484 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Ovambo drops out of Northumberland
		We are contemplating how much water to put on just to keep the ground as it is,' he added.
		Peter Makin's smart four-year-old Ovambo will miss the £140,000 Foster's Lager Northumberland Plate at Newcastle on Saturday, it was revealed today.
		Ovambo, a good third to St Expedit in the Ormonde Stakes at Chester last month, was due to carry 9st 11lb in the two-mile Gosforth Park feature but has been ruled out of the race after appearing not to stay the distance when sixth in the Bonusprint Henry II Stakes at Sandown three weeks ago.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2002/0623/plate.html (284 words)

	COUNTERREVOLUTION IN NAMIBA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SWAPO's origins lie in the Ovambo People's Organization, which was formed in the late 1950s to provide social support and political representation for the Ovambo people of Namibia.
		The organization's name was changed in 1960 to reflect its intention to represent all of Namibia's ethnic groups in the struggle for independence from South Africa resistance to less-violent protests, SWAPO's leaders decided in 1961 to begin preparations for armed struggle.
		The dogged survival of the moderate movement suggests SWAPO is not the shootin for political power that the movement and its supporters assert it to be.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/apj87/owen.html (4032 words)

	Namibia: history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Southwestern Africa was occupied first by San and Khoikhoi peoples, Ovambo in the north and the Bantu-speaking Herero.
		Some 100,000 people inhabit the Caprivi Strip, primarily members of the Iozi ethnic group, who refuse to be led by the countryâs Ovambo majority, which also dominates SWAPO.
		Despite protests from the opposition, the Constitution was modified so that Nujoma could run for a third presidential term in the 1999 elections, which he won easily with 76 per cent of the vote.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=99 (2106 words)

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		Sooner or later the German machineguns to the south, and the Portuguese to the north, would riddle with bullets their last independent nations.
		This was not a childish miscalculation, for at least one Ovambo nation, the Kwanyama, would keep total suzerainty over its territory until the summer of 1915, wile the powerful Ovimbundo kingdoms of Central Angola had succumbed thirteen years earlier.
		This part of Angola, that spreads from the sea to the Cubango river is located in the so called "Savannah Region", stretching inland into deepest Africa, across the continent, until it reaches the East Coast.
	members.lycos.co.uk /kingscarbine/deepsouth.htm (1374 words)

	Ovambo - Ethnos - Books about the Ovambo People
		Ovambo - Ethnos - Books about the Ovambo People
		The Ovambo culture is a unique and interesting society.
		The Ovambo people live a life that is highly influenced by their magico-religious influences.
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Ovambo.htm (282 words)

	SANParks.org Forums :: View topic - Ovambo Sparrowhawk
		Location: The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
		At one stage a vervet monkey was scaling a nearby tree and the Ovambo without hesitation attacked it with full force.
		I never in my life saw a vervet moving as fast in mid air and never before seen any bird maneuvering with such precision in very dense foliage.
	www.sanparks.org /forums/viewtopic.php?t=3414 (659 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		South African troops used the Caprivi Strip in northeast Namibia as a base from which to launch raids against SWAPO forces in the region.
		Muyongo asserts that SWAPO is 95% Ovambo and discriminates against other ethnic groups.
		June 1990: There were unconfirmed reports of political violence and intimidation in the northern districts of Ovambo, Kavango and Caprivi.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/namcaprichro.htm (3635 words)

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