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The Ovambo are the largest and most influential of Namibia's 11 ethnic groups.
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Ethnic groups: black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5% note: about 50% of the population belong to the Ovambo tribe and 9% to the Kavangos tribe; other ethnic groups includes Herero 7%, Damara 7%, Nama 5%, Caprivian 4%, Bushmen 3%, Baster 2%, Tswana 0.5%
Namibia 2008
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Namibiablack 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5% note: about 50% of the population belong to the Ovambo tribe and 9% to the Kavangos tribe; other ethnic groups includes Herero 7%, Damara 7%, Nama 5%, Caprivian 4%, Bushmen 3%, Baster 2%, Tswana 0.5%
Ethnic groups 2008
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The kaiser picked a fight with Britain by backing the white Dutch Afrikaner rebels in South Africa and by butchering the Ovambo people of what is now Namibia.
A War Worth Fighting 2008
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An example is newly independent Namibia, where a pro-Marxist liberation movement dominated by the Ovambo tribe won a parliamentary majority last year but pledged to maintain a market economy and shares power with parties representing 13 other ethnic groups.
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Geingob is not from the majority Ovambo tribe, but Damara.
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But most of the ballots counted thus far came from constituencies in the north of the country, which is SWAPO's support base and home to the Ovambo tribe to which Nujoma and
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The son of poor farmers from the Ovambo tribe, he was elected
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Ovambo people live, but when they come - if they come - this household and many others will have difficulty taking advantage of them to plough and to sow.
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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.
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