In the 19th century, colonialism was starting to kick off into full swing, and even though no colonial power had yet claimed the area that would become Namibia, descendants of South Africa’s Boer population pushed north across the Orange River, settling down at Windhoek and Rehoboth and overwhelming the indigenous tribes, demanding tributes from the Damara and Namaqua peoples respectively.ĭue to the inhospitable nature of the coastal Namib Desert, the land went largely uncolonized (save the port of Walvis Bay) until it was claimed by Otto von Bismarck of Germany, as advised by Adolf Lüderitz, in 1884. Precolonial history is somewhat quiet, as most tribes inhabiting the Namib and Kalahari Deserts in this region were hunter-gatherers or nomadic, and were fairly isolated from each other. ![]() Prior to colonization, Namibia was inhabited by a number of small Bantu and Khoisan tribes - the Ovambo and Kavango in the north, the Namaqua towards the south and the Damara in the central regions, with San and Herero people scattered or roaming the land.
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