Ovatjimba
The Ovatjimba , also OvaTjimba ( singular Tjimba ), are an indigenous people in Namibia . They are a shepherd people in the Kunene region in northwestern Namibia . Their traditional settlement areas are the more mountainous regions, including the Baynesberg .
The Ovatjimba, like the Ovatue , are often equated with the Himba , but are more closely related to the Herero . In addition, they are not nomadic hunters and gatherers like the traditional Himba are . The Ovatjimba still use stone tools and adenium boehmianum as poison for their hunting arrows.
They are considered to be one of the most marginalized groups in southern Africa . The Namibian government has been promoting Ovatjimba since 2007 as part of the San Development Program . About 300 Ovatjimba families were relocated to the villages of Ohaihuua, Otjikojo and Otjomuru. There they received houses and farm animals and have access to schools and health centers.
See also
literature
- HR MacCalman, BJ Grobbelaar: Preliminary Report of Two Stone-working OvaTjimba Groups in the Northern Kaokoveld of South West Africa , State Museum, Windhoek 1965.
- Ombudsman Namibia (Ed.): Guide to Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Namibia. Windhoek 2016. ( PDF ; English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Indigenous World 2019: Namibia. IWGIA. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ Hans Dieter Neuwinger: African ethnobotany: poisons and drugs: chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology. , 1996, p. 97.
- ↑ Ovatue and Ovatjimba development sparks hope. The Namibian, April 29, 2011.