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By Anouk Zijlma, About.com Guide to Africa Travel since 2005

Where is this in Africa? (4)

Sunday February 11, 2007
cape buffalo 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.

© Charles Roffey

Comments
February 12, 2007 at 5:28 am
(1) Mal says:

They’re Herero ladies, aren’t they? Another reminder to put Namibia on the long list of places I must visit before much longer…

February 12, 2007 at 11:57 am
(2) paul smith says:

look like the herrero ladies in Namibia.

February 13, 2007 at 2:58 am
(3) Isaac says:

Indeed Herero ladies from Namibia. What a contrast with the Himba’s from that same country

February 14, 2007 at 10:45 am
(4) eDawg says:

Yes the Germans carried out their very first genocide against the Herrero in the early 1900s…

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