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124 relations: Aesthetics, African Union, Agence France-Presse, AllAfrica.com, Angola, Animal slaughter, Antimicrobial, Arranged marriage, Artisan, Bantu languages, Bantu peoples, Beauty, Bilateral descent, Binder (material), Black magic, Braid, Butterfat, Calabash, Calfskin, Cap, Cash, Cattle, Chicken, Circumcision, Clothing, Construction, Cornmeal, Cosmetics, Council, Crop, Daily Mail, Deodorant, Dotdash, Drought, Earthen plaster, Famine, Fat-tailed sheep, Fire worship, German Empire, German South West Africa, Goat, Government of Namibia, Handicraft, Health care, Herb, Herding, Herero and Namaqua genocide, Herero language, Herero people, Herero Wars, ..., Honey, Humanitarian aid, Hunter-gatherer, Indigenous peoples, IRIN, Jewellery, Kaokoland, Kidnapping, Koevoet, Kraal, Kunene Region, Lifestyle (sociology), Livestock, Lothar von Trotha, Maize, Manure, Meat, Milk, Millet, Monotheism, Mosquito, Mukuru, Nama people, Namibia, Nguni homestead, Niger–Congo languages, Nomad, Ochre, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Oorlam people, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, Opuwo, Otjize, Ovambo people, Pastoralism, Pension, People's Liberation Army of Namibia, Polygamy, Preadolescence, Protected area, Puberty, Rite of passage, Sacred, Sandal, Scientific American, Semi-arid climate, Sheepskin, Shrub, Skirt, Slum, Social dynamics, Soured milk, Special Rapporteur, Supermarket, SWAPO, The Namibian, Tradition, Traditional healers of South Africa, Trends (journals), Tribal chief, Twin, Ultisol, United Nations, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, University of Essex, Urban culture, Veil, Veneration of the dead, Water scarcity, Wealth, Widow, Witchcraft, Wood ash, Zemba. Expand index (74 more) »
Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries on the African continent, extending slightly into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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AllAfrica.com
AllAfrica.com is a website that aggregates news produced primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture.
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.
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Animal slaughter
Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock.
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Antimicrobial
An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or stops their growth.
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Arranged marriage
Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly family members, such as the parents.
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Artisan
An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates things by hand that may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative arts, sculptures, clothing, jewellery, food items, household items and tools or even mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker.
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: */baⁿtʊ̀/) technically the Narrow Bantu languages, as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other "Bantoid" languages are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Bantu peoples
The Bantu peoples are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.
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Beauty
Beauty is a characteristic of an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction.
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Bilateral descent
Bilateral descent is a system of family lineage in which the relatives on the mother's side and father's side are equally important for emotional ties or for transfer of property or wealth.
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Binder (material)
A binder or binding agent is any material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a cohesive whole mechanically, chemically, by adhesion or cohesion.
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Black magic
Black magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes.
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Braid
A braid (also referred to as a plait) is a complex structure or pattern formed by interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as textile yarns, wire, or hair.
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Butterfat
Butterfat or milkfat is the fatty portion of milk.
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Calabash
A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil.
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Calfskin
Calfskin or calf leather is a leather or membrane produced from the hide of a calf, or juvenile domestic cattle.
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Cap
A cap is a form of headgear.
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Cash
In economics, cash is money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Chicken
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.
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Circumcision
Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis.
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Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes and attire) is a collective term for garments, items worn on the body.
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Construction
Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure.
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Cornmeal
Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried maize (corn).
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Cosmetics
Cosmetics are substances or products used to enhance or alter the appearance of the face or fragrance and texture of the body.
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Council
A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions.
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Crop
A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.
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Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.
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Deodorant
A deodorant is a substance applied to the body to prevent body odor caused by the bacterial breakdown of perspiration in armpits, feet, and other areas of the body.
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Dotdash
Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.
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Drought
A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water.
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Earthen plaster
Earthen plaster (adobe plaster, dagga) is a blend of clay, fine aggregate, and fiber.
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Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies.
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Fat-tailed sheep
The fat-tailed sheep is a general type of domestic sheep known for their distinctive large tails and hindquarters.
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Fire worship
Worship or deification of fire (also pyrodulia, pyrolatry or pyrolatria) is known from various religions.
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German Empire
The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.
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German South West Africa
German South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1919.
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Goat
The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Government of Namibia
The Government of Namibia consists of the executive, the legislative and the judiciary branches.
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Handicraft
A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools.
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Health care
Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.
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Herb
In general use, herbs are plants with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, in medicine, or as fragrances.
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Herding
Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group (herd), maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those.
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Herero and Namaqua genocide
The Herero and Nama genocide was a campaign of racial extermination and collective punishment that the German Empire undertook in German South West Africa (now Namibia) against the Ovaherero and the Nama.
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Herero language
Herero (Otjiherero) is a language of the Bantu subfamily of the Niger–Congo group.
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Herero people
The Herero are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa.
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Herero Wars
The Herero Wars were a series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South West Africa (present-day Namibia).
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Honey
Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by bees and some related insects.
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Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance to people who need help.
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Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.
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Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.
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IRIN
IRIN (formerly Integrated Regional Information Networks) is a news agency focusing on humanitarian stories in regions that are often forgotten, under-reported, misunderstood or ignored.
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Jewellery
Jewellery (British English) or jewelry (American English)see American and British spelling differences consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.
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Kaokoland
Kaokoland was an administrative unit and a bantustan in northern South West Africa, in the Kaokoveld ecoregion.
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Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.
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Koevoet
Koevoet (translates to crowbar, abbreviated Operation K or SWAPOL-COIN) was the counter-insurgency branch of the South West African Police (SWAPOL).
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Kraal
Kraal (also spelled craal or kraul) is an Afrikaans and Dutch word (also used in South African English) for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within an African settlement or village surrounded by a fence of thorn-bush branches, a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form.
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Kunene Region
Kunene is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia and home to the Himba ethnic group.
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Lifestyle (sociology)
Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Lothar von Trotha
Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (3 July 1848 – 31 March 1920) was a German military commander during the European new colonial era.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
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Manure
Manure is organic matter, mostly derived from animal feces except in the case of green manure, which can be used as organic fertilizer in agriculture.
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Meat
Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.
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Milk
Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals.
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Millet
Millets (/ˈmɪlɪts/) are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
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Monotheism
Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of only one god that created the world, is all-powerful and intervenes in the world.
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Mosquito
Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.
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Mukuru
Mukuru is the Supreme Creator (God) of the Himba and Herero people of Namibia.
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Nama people
Nama (in older sources also called Namaqua) are an African ethnic group of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.
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Nguni homestead
A homestead (Xhosa: umzi, Zulu: umuzi, Swati: umuti) in southern Africa is a cluster of several houses, typically occupied by a single extended family and often with an attached kraal.
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Niger–Congo languages
The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers and number of distinct languages.
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Nomad
A nomad (νομάς, nomas, plural tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another in search of grasslands for their animals.
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Ochre
Ochre (British English) (from Greek: ὤχρα, from ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) or ocher (American English) is a natural clay earth pigment which is a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
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Oorlam people
The Oorlam or Orlam people (also known as Orlaam, Oorlammers, Oerlams, or Orlamse Hottentots) are a subtribe of the Nama people, largely assimilated after their migration from the Cape Colony (today, part of South Africa) to Namaqualand and Damaraland (now in Namibia).
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Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a Southern African organization which "collaborates with other organizations on issues surrounding the rule of law, democracy building, human rights, economic development, education, the media, and access to technology and information.
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Opuwo
Opuwo is the capital of the Kunene Region in north-western Namibia.
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Otjize
Otjize is a mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment used by the Himba people of Namibia to protect themselves from the harsh desert climate.
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Ovambo people
The Ovambo people, also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga) or Ovawambo (Kwanyama), are a Southern African tribal ethnic group.
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Pastoralism
Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock.
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Pension
A pension is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years, and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments.
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People's Liberation Army of Namibia
The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was the military wing of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO).
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Polygamy
Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, polygamía, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.
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Preadolescence
Preadolescence, also known as pre-teen or tween, is a stage of human development following early childhood and preceding adolescence.
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Protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.
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Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.
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Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ceremony of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.
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Sacred
Sacred means revered due to sanctity and is generally the state of being perceived by religious individuals as associated with divinity and considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers.
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Sandal
Sandals are an open type of footwear, consisting of a sole held to the wearer's foot by straps going over the instep and, sometimes, around the ankle.
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Scientific American
Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.
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Sheepskin
Sheepskin is the hide of a sheep, sometimes also called lambskin.
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Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.
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Skirt
A skirt is the lower part of a dress or gown, covering the person from the waist downwards, or a separate outer garment serving this purpose.
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Slum
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.
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Social dynamics
Social dynamics can refer to the behavior of groups that results from the interactions of individual group members as well to the study of the relationship between individual interactions and group level behaviors.
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Soured milk
Soured milk denotes a range of food products produced by the acidification of milk.
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Special Rapporteur
Special Rapporteur is a title given to individuals working on behalf of various regional and international organizations who bear specific mandates to investigate, monitor and recommend solutions to specific human rights problems.
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Supermarket
A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food and household products, organized into aisles.
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SWAPO
SWAPO, formerly the South West African People's Organisation (Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO; Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volk-Organisasie, SWAVO) and officially known as SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia.
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The Namibian
The Namibian is the largest daily newspaper in Namibia.
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Tradition
A tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
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Traditional healers of South Africa
Traditional healers of South Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.
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Trends (journals)
Trends is a series of scientific journals owned by Elsevier that publish review articles in a range of areas of biology.
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Tribal chief
A tribal chief is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
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Twin
Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.
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Ultisol
Ultisols, commonly known as red clay soils, are one of twelve soil orders in the United States Department of Agriculture soil taxonomy.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body formed in December 1991 by General Assembly Resolution 46/182.
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University of Essex
The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England.
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Urban culture
Urban culture is the culture of towns and cities.
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Veil
A veil is an article of clothing or hanging cloth that is intended to cover some part of the head or face, or an object of some significance.
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Veneration of the dead
The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased.
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Water scarcity
Water scarcity is the lack of fresh water resources to meet water demand.
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Wealth
Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or valuable material possessions.
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Widow
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and a widower is a man whose spouse has died.
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Witchcraft
Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.
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Wood ash
Wood ash is the residue powder left after the combustion of wood, such as burning wood in a home fireplace or an industrial power plant.
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Zemba
The Zemba (singular: OmuZemba, plural: OvaZemba) are an indigenous people, and reside in Angola and also in Namibia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himba_people
