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  2. German Namibians - Wikipedia

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    German family in Keetmanshoop, 1926. Today, English is the country's sole official language, but about 30,000 Namibians of German descent (around 2% of the country's overall population) and possibly 15,000 black Namibians (many of whom returned from East Germany after Namibian independence) still speak German or Namibian Black German, respectively. [1]

  3. German language in Namibia - Wikipedia

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    German is especially widely used in central and southern Namibia and was until 1990 one of three official languages in what was then South West Africa, alongside Afrikaans and English, two other Germanic languages in Namibia. German is the mother tongue of German Namibians as well as older black speakers of Namibian Black German and Black ...

  4. Category:German-Namibian culture - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "German-Namibian culture" ... German language in Namibia; German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia; H. Hitradio Namibia;

  5. Germany–Namibia relations - Wikipedia

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    GermanyNamibia relations are the bilateral relationship of Germany and Namibia. This relationship is of particular importance as Namibia was colonized and occupied by the German Empire in the 19th century. There is also a community of approximately 30,000 German Namibians residing in Namibia today. [1] Both nations are members of the United ...

  6. White Namibians - Wikipedia

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    White Namibians (German: Weiße Namibier or Europäische Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia.The majority of White Namibians are Dutch-descended Afrikaners (locally born or of White South African descent), with a minority being native-born German Namibians (descended from Germans who colonised Namibia in the late-nineteenth century).

  7. Culture of Namibia - Wikipedia

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    Culture in Namibia is a blend of many different people and its culture and customs have absorbed both African and European elements and fused them into a blend of the two. Although the country is urbanising rapidly, a majority of Namibians still live in rural areas and lead largely impoverished lives.

  8. Herero and Nama genocide - Wikipedia

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    The Herero and Nama genocide or Namibian genocide, [5] formerly known also as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire.

  9. Namibian Black German - Wikipedia

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    Namibian Black German, also NBG, (German: Küchendeutsch, "kitchen German") is a pidgin language of Namibia that derives from standard German. [1] It is nearly extinct. [ 2 ] It was spoken mostly by Namibians who did not learn standard German during the period of German rule .