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    The Ovambo (English: /ɒˈvæmboʊ/) language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written...
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    The Ovambo people (pronounced [ovambo] ), also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga, Nghandjera, Kwambi, Kwaluudhi, Kolonghadhi, Mbalantu, mbadja), or...
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  • Look up ovambo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ovambo may refer to: Ovambo language, Bantu language of Namibia Ovambo people, Bantu people of Namibia...
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    The Ovambo Uprising was an uprising against Portuguese colonial rule in World War I. It lasted from about 18 December 1914 to 6 February 1917 with the...
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    The Ovambo or Ovampo sparrowhawk, also known as Hilgert's sparrowhawk, (Accipiter ovampensis) is a species of sub-Saharan African bird of prey in the family...
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    on cattle raising, as did their southern neighbors, the Herero and the Ovambo. Still others, typically the old tributary kingdoms, came to speak Umbundu...
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    rebellion (1913–1920) Zaian War (1914–1921) Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917) Ovambo Uprising (1914-1917) Kelantan rebellion (1915) Senussi campaign (1915–1917)...
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    1990. The party continues to be dominated in number and influence by the Ovambo ethnic group. SWAPO held a two-thirds majority in parliament from 1994 to...
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    Mexcala ovambo is a species of jumping spider in the genus Mexcala that is endemic to Namibia. The spider was first defined in 2009 by Wanda Wesołowska...
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    mainly in Northern Namibia. Formerly known as the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambo-Kavango Church (ELOC), it played a significant role in opposition to Apartheid...
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    Trachylepis binotata, the Ovambo tree skink or Bocage's mabuya, is a species of skink from Namibia and Angola. v t e...
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    The Omuramba Ovambo is an omuramba (dry river bed) in Namibia. It originates about five kilometers from Tsintsabis and flows into Etosha Pan. Its catchment...
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    Ovamboland (category Ovambo)
    ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia). The apartheid government stated...
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  • Leaders of Ovamboland (category Ovambo people)
    Ovamboland, or Ovambo, was a Bantustan or "homeland" and later a second-tier authority in South West Africa for the Ovambo people during the apartheid...
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    rebellion (1913–1920) Zaian War (1914–1921) Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917) Ovambo Uprising (1914-1917) Kelantan rebellion (1915) Senussi campaign (1915–1917)...
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  • the Ovambo River and the Angolan border, around the tributaries of the Okavango River east of Rundu to the Etosha Pan: Tsintsabis Okongo Ovambo Mpunguvlei...
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    The Temne, also called Atemne, Témené, Temné, Téminè, Temeni, Thaimne, Themne, Thimni, Timené, Timné, Timmani, or Timni, are a West African ethnic group...
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  • Western (North-Central) ǃKung (ǃKung-Ekoka), of northern Namibia, between the Ovambo River and the Angolan border, around the tributaries of the Okavango River...
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    the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups, the largest being the Ovambo, have dominated the population of the country; since the late 19th century...
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    the Herero people, while fellow independence movement SWAPO was mostly an Ovambo party. SWANU has a president, a vice-president, and a secretary-general...
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    occupation of the area. The inhabitants of the Province are overwhelmingly Ovambo pastoralists. Since the 1960s, they have been under pressure first from...
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    Central North Mbundu (Kimbundu) (3 million) North Bakongo (Kikongo) (576,800) Ovambo (Ambo) (Oshiwambo) (500,000) Luvale (Chiluvale) (500,000) Chokwe (Chichokwe)...
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    rebellion (1913–1920) Zaian War (1914–1921) Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917) Ovambo Uprising (1914-1917) Kelantan rebellion (1915) Senussi campaign (1915–1917)...
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  • the San and Damara, they lived on the livestock they bred themselves. The Ovambo, and the smaller and closely related group Kavango, lived in northern Namibia...
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    rebellion (1913–1920) Zaian War (1914–1921) Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917) Ovambo Uprising (1914-1917) Kelantan rebellion (1915) Senussi campaign (1915–1917)...
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    rebellion (1913–1920) Zaian War (1914–1921) Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917) Ovambo Uprising (1914-1917) Kelantan rebellion (1915) Senussi campaign (1915–1917)...
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    rebellion (1913–1920) Zaian War (1914–1921) Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917) Ovambo Uprising (1914-1917) Kelantan rebellion (1915) Senussi campaign (1915–1917)...
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    of Race Relations. 1969. pp. 309–310. Representative Authority of the Ovambos Proclamation, 1980 (Proclamation AG. 23 of 1980) A Survey of Race Relations...
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  • newspaper publisher the ISO 639-3 code for the Ngandjera dialect of the Ovambo language Novo Nordisk Engineering, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical company...
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    modicum of cows bought from the farmer-herders to the South (Nyaneka-Nkhumbi, Ovambo). Incisive change came about when the Portuguese established a colonial...
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