Ovamboland People's Organization

The Ovamboland People's Organization is a defunct nationalist organization that advocated an independent Ovamboland (Namibia). Andimba Toivo ya Toivo and Sam Nujoma founded the OPO in 1959, Lucas Haleinge Nepela became its first chairperson.[1] A year later, the organization sought a pan-ethnic independence for the country and formed into the South West Africa People's Organization.[2]

On December 10, 1959, police shot and killed 11 protesters in Windhoek's Old Location,[3] forcing OPO leaders to go into exile and create the South-West Africa People's Organization.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Xoagub, Francis (3 July 2012). "Liberation struggle pioneer honoured". New Era.
  2. ↑ Dictionary of African historical biography "Sam Nujoma", Page 280, 1989
  3. ↑ "History of Old Location and Katutura". Namibweb. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
  4. ↑ Peter N. Stearns and William Leonard Langer. The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged, 2001. Page 1070.