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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 fiery, white-bearded freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and ...

Now, four decades after leading Namibia through a bitter guerrilla war against South Africa's racist apartheid government and on to independence, Nujoma has died aged 95. He died on Saturday after ...

He led a Soviet-backed guerrilla army in a protracted war against South Africa, which had occupied Namibia despite international condemnation. While Nujoma himself did not participate directly in ...