Onamunhama

Onamunhama
Onamunhama

Location in Namibia

Coordinates: 17°23′36″S 16°06′48″E / 17.39333°S 16.11333°E / -17.39333; 16.11333Coordinates: 17°23′36″S 16°06′48″E / 17.39333°S 16.11333°E / -17.39333; 16.11333
Country  Namibia
Region Ohangwena Region
Time zone South African Standard Time (UTC+1)
Currency Namibian dollar
Languages English, Afrikaans, German, Ovambo, local languages
Religion Roman Catholic

Onamunhama (IPA: [onam'n̥ana]) is a village in the Ohangwena Region in the north of Namibia in the Oukwanyama tribal area. It is the location of the former Anglican mission station of Holy Cross. The mission station was founded in 1927 ca. 20 kilometres east of the St. Mary Mission in Odibo, right on the Angolan border.[1]

The former president of Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba completed his primary education in the Holy Cross Mission school in Onamunhama.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Peltola, Matti (1958). Sata vuotta suomalaista lähetystyötä 1859–1959. II: Suomen Lähetysseuran Afrikan työn historia [‘One Hundred Years of Finnish Missionary Work 1859–1959. II: The History of FMS’s Missionary Work in Africa’]. Helsinki: The Finnish Missionary Society. p. 205.
  2. ↑ "SWAPO Party and Namibian President". SWAPO. 2009. Retrieved 2015-05-15.


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