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Onamukulo
Onamukulo is a village in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia. It is north of Windhoek and belongs to Omulonga Constituency. It is situated about north of Oshigambo village. Onamukulo village is divided into two parts and is separated by the main road running through from Ondangwa to Oshigambo. The two parts of the village are known as Omiye (the cooker shops side, on the right side of the road) and the true village (on the left side of the road) but run and administered by one headman, Tom Nakathingo. It has 80 homesteads with an average of 5 people per homestead. The inhabitants in this village have homesteads made of tree poles cut in the forest found in Okaonde area. But due to the high growth rate, suitable trees are now becoming scarce, and the forest is slowly but surely being destroyed, which has led the new generation planning to build houses to use alternative materials, such as bricks, mud, thatch, mesh-wires, etc. Onamukulo is rich in fertile soils, thus they d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omulonga Constituency
Omulonga is a constituency in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia. It had 27,772 inhabitants in 2004 and 13,585 registered voters . The constituency office is located at Onamukulo, along the Ondobe-Oshigambo district road. The constituency is sharing boundaries with Ondobe Constituency on the North, Oshana Region on the South, Eenhana Constituency on the Eastern part and Endola Constituency on the West. It contains the settlements of Onandova, Okaonde, Onaihenda, Ombalamumbwenge, Esaati, Onangwe, Oshali, Ohaukelo, Onashali, Omakondo, Omokolo, Ohepa, Onailonga and Onamukulo. Politics As is common in all constituencies of former Owamboland, Namibia's ruling SWAPO Party has dominated elections since independence. It won the 2015 regional election by a landslide. Its candidate Erickson Ndawanifa gathered 5,785 votes, while the only opposition candidate, Jona Thomas of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), received 140 votes. Councillor Ndawanifa of SWAPO w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oshigambo
Oshigambo is a settlement in the Oshikoto Region of northern Namibia. It is situated on the banks of Oshigambo River east of the Etosha pan The Etosha Pan is a large endorheic salt pan, forming part of the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin in the north of Namibia. It is a hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated. The 120-ki .... The village features a secondary school, Oshigambo High School, as well as a primary school. See also * Onamukulo References Populated places in the Oshikoto Region {{Namibia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohangwena Region
Ohangwena is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Eenhana. Major settlements in the region are the towns Eenhana and Helao Nafidi aa well as the self-governed village of Okongo. , Ohangwena had 150,724 registered voters. Ohangwena is traversed by the northwesterly line of equal latitude and longitude. In the north, Ohangwena borders Angola: the Cunene Province, except for a small border with Cuando Cubango Province in the far northeast. Domestically, it borders the following regions: *Kavango West - East *Oshikoto - South *Oshana - South West *Omusati - West Economy and infrastructure The northern and western parts of the region are the most densely populated of this essentially subsistence agricultural region in which small scale mahangu cultivation and the keeping of cattle form the predominant activities. Although the region depends on rain fed agriculture, other crops can be established under intensive cultivation. The main settlements in the region strad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups, the largest being the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windhoek
Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 2020 was 431,000 which is growing continually due to an influx from all over Namibia. Windhoek is the social, economic, political, and cultural centre of the country. Nearly every Namibian national enterprise, governmental body, educational and cultural institution is headquartered there. The city developed at the site of a permanent hot spring known to the indigenous pastoral communities. It developed rapidly after Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam, settled there in 1840 and built a stone church for his community. In the decades following, multiple wars and armed hostilities resulted in the neglect and destruction of the new settlement. Windhoek was founded a second time in 1890 by Imperial German Army Major Curt von François, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ondangwa
Ondangwa (earlier spelling ''Ondangua'') is a town in the Oshana Region of northern Namibia, bordering the Oshikoto Region. Ondangwa was first established as a mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society (the FMS) in 1890. In 1914, it became a local seat of government. Ondangwa is said to mean ''the end of the Ondonga area''. (Ondonga is one of the kingdoms of Ovamboland), and Ondangwa is located on the western edge of this kingdom. Ondangwa is located about from the Angolan border, along the B1 road. It is one of the places of residence of the Kings of Ondonga; the current King Eliphas Kauluma, father to the reigning king, lives here. Most of the residents of the town speak Oshindonga. Ondangwa is the district capital of the Ondangwa electoral constituency. Economy and infrastructure Ondangwa features various shopping centre, a large open market, and several tourism facilities. There are also shopping centres such as Gwashamba mall, Yetu complex, Ondangwa Industri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahangu
Pearl millet (''Cenchrus americanus'', commonly known as the synonym ''Pennisetum glaucum''; also known as 'Bajra' in Hindi, 'Sajje' in Kannada, 'Kambu' in Tamil, 'Bajeer' in Kumaoni and 'Maiwa' in Hausa, 'Mexoeira' in Mozambique) is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa and the Indian subcontinent since prehistoric times. The center of diversity, and suggested area of domestication, for the crop is in the Sahel zone of West Africa. Recent archaeobotanical research has confirmed the presence of domesticated pearl millet on the Sahel zone of northern Mali between 2500 and 2000 BC. Description Pearl millet has ovoid grains of 3 – 4 mm length, the largest kernels of all varieties of millet (not including sorghum). These can be nearly white, pale yellow, brown, grey, slate blue or purple. The 1000-seed weight can be anything from 2.5 to 14 g with a mean of 8 g. The height of the plant ranges from 0.5 – 4 m. Cultivation Pearl millet is well ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
