The Himba Tribe is a Nomadic Group of people. The Tribe is generally focused in an area of Southwest Africa named Namibia (15,000-20,000). Namibia is only about half of the size of the U.S state Alaska! Its surface area is only measured at about 824,290 square km.More specifically, most of the tribe roams an area of Northern Namibia also referred to as Kaokoland However, there are some who ave ventured as far as Angola (approx. 10,000).
Due to the population not being focused in one small area, the tribe numbers can grow quite large! They are only semi nomdac however, which explains the concentration to one general portion of Africa. They are also pastoral people.
Namimbia is one of the dryest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The country has no rivers or other permanent bodies of water. Due to the severe lack of rainfall to this area, only about 5% of the land is actually arable. This takes away the opportunity of the Himba population becoming stationary.
They generally live in small hut type housing establishments that resemble the following:
From Angola:
Thd Himba has also made use of active tourism to their native land by establishing tourist sites in Kamanjab.
The Himba have built villages here to maintain the yearn for tourist to visit. By setting up tourist attractions, the Himba get to preserve their personal life somewhat but also make money from the tourist villages.
Bollig, Michael, and Heike Heinemann. 2002. "Nomadic Savages, Ochre People and Heroic Herders: Visual Presentations of the Himba of Namibia's Kaokoland." Visual Anthropology 15, no. 3/4: 267-312. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 27, 2012).
World Bank. (2009). Namibia: Country brief. Washington, DC: World Bank.
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