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⏲ Duration: 17 min 61 sec ✓ Published: 20-Oct-2018
Description: Our film presents highlights from the Damara King's Festival, an annual event taking place in the village of Okombahe in west Namibia. Now in its 37th year, Damara/≠Nūkhoen people gather at the festival to sing, dance, eat, and receive counsel from their king, Justus |Uruhe ||Garoëb. Lineages from all over the country arrive dressed in the emblematic blue, green and white of the Damara nation. Women wear long Victorian dresses that mimic the attire of influential colonial missionaries. Men a
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