1802 NAMIBIA - A Himba woman

The Himba (singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) is an ethnic group with an population of about 50,000 people, living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene region and on the other side of the Kunene River in  Angola. The OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoral people, culturally distinguishable from the  Herero people, and speak OtjiHimba (a Herero language dialect), which belongs to the language family of the  Bantu. They are predominantly livestock farmers who breed fat-tailed sheep and goats, but count their wealth in the number of their cattle. They also grow and farm rain-fed crops such as maize and millet.

1537 NAMIBIA - Ju/'hoansi bushmen in Eastern Bushmanland

Khoisan is a unifying name for two groups of peoples of Southern Africa, who share physical and putative linguistic characteristics distinct from the Bantu majority of the region. Culturally, they are divided into the foraging San (or Bushmen), and the pastoral Khoi, previously known as Hottentots. The San include the indigenous inhabitants of the region before the southward Bantu migrations from Central and East Africa. Over time, some Khoi abandoned pastoralism and adopted the hunter-gatherer economy of the San, and are now considered San. Similarly, the Bantu Damara people who migrated south abandoned agriculture and adopted the Khoi economy. Large Khoisan populations remained in some arid areas, notably in the Kalahari Desert.