Namib Desert Lodge in TV Film on Emigrants

The true story of a young woman from Münster in Germany, who follows her heart and moves to Namibia, was shown on German television channel ZDF on Pentecost Monday. The film ‘Emigrating to paradise: a new love’, follows her everyday life in Windhoek, a safari through Namibia, her wedding in Swakopmund and it also features [...]

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Art of Basketry – Fruit Baskets of the AaWambo

Traditionally, the AaWambo were renowned basket makers and used a wide variety of baskets and other woven articles. Before the start of promotion campaigns some thirty years ago, whereby baskets are produced and bought up on a large scale to be sold in the tourist industry, traditionally-made baskets were still of utmost importance for utilitarian [...]

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Rehoboth-Baster – The ‘Kappie’ of the Women

Although the long dress and the unique headdress of the Rehoboth-Baster women has today disappeared from the everyday scene it is still worn during special ceremonies such as the annual festival commemorating the Baster people’s fallen heroes during the battle of Tsamkhubis, which took place with the German Schutztruppe on May 8, 1915. The ancestors [...]

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