Ueshitile Banana Shekupe, a former liberation fighter and founder of the Ndilimani Cultural Troupe, said he will always cherish late Founding President Sam Nujoma for his instrumental role in creating ...

Before independence in 1990, Mr. Nujoma directed a Cold War-era insurgency against South African control of the mineral-rich ...

Now, four decades after leading Namibia through a bitter guerrilla war against South Africa's racist apartheid government and ...

Born on May 12, 1929, at Etunda village, Omusati Region, in northwestern Namibia, Nujoma served as the country's first ...

Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who became Namibia's founding president after leading the country to independence from ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its ...

No single event encapsulated the opposing perceptions of Namibia’s war as much as a bloody South African airborne incursion at Cassinga, 160 miles north of the Namibian border in Angola ...

West civil war — allowed SWAPO to set up bases on its territory. Yet that gave further ideological ammunition to South Africa, which justified its control over Namibia (which the Pretoria ...

Sam Nujoma, who fought against apartheid and for Namibian independence and was known officially as the country’s “founding ...