Women of the Himba tribe create a unique song for each of their children which is then sung to them from the moment of conception until death. Our verdict There is no such tradition within the Himba ...
'Hospitable' tribesmen let visitors sleep with their wives for a 'warm welcome' as part of tradition
It is customary for husbands to offer up their wives to visitors in the Himba tribe. The 'wife-swapping tradition' is known as 'okujepisa omukazendu', which simply means 'offering a wife to a guest', ...
New Delhi: There are many tribes in the world, which are known for their different traditions. But do you know that there is a tribe where women bathe only once in their entire life. The tribe we are ...
As a major international conference gets under way in Kenya, BBC News Online looks at the impact the Aids/HIV virus is having on one isolated community in Namibia. The Himba people have over the years ...
For years, an ancient tribe of semi-nomadic herders known as the Himba has drawn photographers to Namibia’s barren northwest. As a result, the striking image of the Himba – if not their name – has ...
Himba women apply red-coloured ochre on their skin as a daily beautification ritual Having survived genocide by German troops in the 1900s, Namibia's Himba people are now facing a bigger threat to ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They are images that seem the very personification of nomadic existence. From the sculptured hair braids to the kid goats. Here the ...
AROUND 2500 years ago, the Bantu-speaking people of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa gradually migrated into other parts of the continent. They are one of the four major ethnic groups of which ...
Sarah Pope drives to work every day. It takes the cognitive neuroscientist 10 minutes to get to her lab at the University of Texas at Austin, and 10 minutes to get back home. She thought it was the ...
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