Owambo

The Owambo peoples inhabit the country of the Cuvelai drainage in northern Namibia and southern Angola. Seasonal channels and shallow floodplains bring water to a region where families cultivate millet and keep cattle. Their communities include the Ndonga, Kwanyama, Kwambi and others, each with its own history and leadership. Some developed kingdoms, among them Oukwanyama, whose rulers governed people and herds on both sides of the northern plains.