The two women below are Herero.
Herero is also one of the six minority languages
that are used by the Namibian State Radio(NBC).
This geographic separation meant that the Herero did not have much interaction
with the previously mentioned Ovambo and Kavango people.
The white immigrants seized land from both the Herero and Nama and had majority control by the beginning of the 1900's.
So I had the privilege of arranging for the tract Life in a New
World to be translated into four local languages: Herero, Nama, Ndonga, and Kwanyama.
Another 7% of the total population is made up of the Herero group that has historically inhabited the central
part of the country for its vast pastureland.
The Nama and Herero began wars with each other that lasted throughout the 19th
century although they were able to find common ground over their distrust of the German colonizers.
Because of the translation of missionary Gottlieb Viehe(1839-1901) of the Bible into Herero, at the end of the 19th century,
the spoken language was transcribed to an alphabet based on the Latin script.