Ovambo

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The Ovambo are matrilineal people living in north-central Namibia and south-central Angola. They speak a variety of languages, collectively known as Oshiwambo, part the Southern Bantu group. Traditionally, Oshiwambo-speakers resided in scattered, palisaded homesteads within independent polities led either by a monarch or popularly-chosen community heads, but shared religious practices and an agro-pastoral subsistence pattern.

Identifier

Region

• Africa

Subregion

• Southern Africa

Subsistence Type

• agro-pastoralists

Samples

• EA

Countries

• Angola
• Namibia