Himba Encounters
on Cam, Yvonne, Kaia & Jake in Namibia (Namibia), 04/Jan/2010 09:05, 34 days ago
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December 13-18
Kaokoland is homeland of the Himba & Herero people. As Yvonne mentioned in last entry, they descended from a common heritage. Both suffered considerably at the hands of the German and Nama groups, but the Herero when re-establishing themselves integrated more into colonial life. They adopted Victorian style dresses upon encouragement from missionary wives [...]
