The Himba(singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) is an ethnic group with an population of about 50,000 people, living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene region and on the other side of the Kunene River in Angola. The OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoral people, culturally distinguishable from the Herero people, and speak OtjiHimba (a Herero language dialect), which belongs to the language family of the Bantu. They are predominantly livestock farmers who breed fat-tailed sheep and goats, but count their wealth in the number of their cattle. They also grow and farm rain-fed crops such as maize and millet.
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