Where is this in Africa? (4)
Sunday February 11, 2007
This is the fourth installment in the Where is this in Africa? series. I put up an image of a place or people in Africa and you guess where it is.
This week you're looking at two ladies who are wearing traditional dress. The dress mimics that of the colonial European settlers who arrived in their country during the late 19th century. The European colonialists actually went to war with this tribe and almost decimated its entire population. Despite this the dress is still worn proudly today, petticoats and all. The headdress represents the horns of cattle.
Answer: The image shows two Herero ladies. Most Herero live in Namibia, and some in neighboring Botswana. The Herero are related to the Himba.
They’re Herero ladies, aren’t they? Another reminder to put Namibia on the long list of places I must visit before much longer…
look like the herrero ladies in Namibia.
Indeed Herero ladies from Namibia. What a contrast with the Himba’s from that same country
Yes the Germans carried out their very first genocide against the Herrero in the early 1900s…