Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto near its former capital Tsumeb. The capital of Oshikoto is Omuthiya. The northern part of the region is agricultural, whereas the main economic activities in the southern part are cattle rearing and mining. The two areas have important cultural and historical links in that the Ndonga people have extracted copper at Tsumeb since the earliest times in order to make rings and tools.
Ondangwa is a town of 23,000 inhabitants in the Oshana Region of northern Namibia, bordering Oshikoto Region. Ondangwa was first established as a mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society in 1890. In 1914 it became a local seat of government.
The Ovambo language, Oshiwambo, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga.
Eenhana is the capital town of the Ohangwena Region, northern Namibia, on the border with Angola. It also used to be a mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society.
Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), formerly known as Polytechnic of Namibia, is an institute of tertiary education in the city of Windhoek, Namibia. It was until March 2019 headed by the Founding Vice chancellor Tjama Tjivikua. The largely ceremonial role of chancellor of the university is held by Prof. Peter Katjavivi.
Education in Namibia is compulsory for 10 years between the ages of 6 and 16. There are approximately 1500 schools in Namibia of which 100 are privately owned. The Constitution directs the government to provide free primary education; however, families must pay fees for uniforms, stationery, books, hostels, and school improvements.
The SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL), formerly SWAPO Youth League, is the youth wing of the SWAPO Party, the ruling party of Namibia. It shares the same principles as those of the SWAPO Party.
Leonard Nangolo Auala was a Namibian Lutheran Church leader.
Philemon Moongo was a Namibian politician. A member of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, Moongo has been a member of the National Assembly since 1995. Moongo was born at Oniipa village in Oshikoto Region in 1943 and died from cancer after a long battle in 2015.
Oniipa Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Oshikoto Region of Namibia. It has 23,913 inhabitants, its district capital is the settlement of Oniipa. Further settlements in this constituency are Oshigambo, and Onanjokwe.
Okambonde is a village in the northern part of Namibia. It is situated just east of Oniipa and is one of the villages used as entrance into some Uukwanyama villages such as Oshaango, Onamukulo, Okongo, and Eenhana.
Omukwiyugwemanya is a fig tree located in Oniipa constituency in Oshikoto region in the northern part of Namibia. Its name means "fig tree growing from a rock". It is located on the Oshigambo River at Oshigambo High School. It is a tourist attraction for people from different countries.
Onandjokwe State Hospital, until 2016 Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital, is the oldest hospital in the northern part of Namibia. It was built in 1911 by the Finnish Missionary Society under the leadership of Selma Rainio. The hospital was operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) via Lutheran Medical Services until 2016, when the Government of Namibia took over.
Juuso Ngaikukwete was one of the first seven Ovambo pastors, whom the director of the Finnish Missionary Society, Matti Tarkkanen ordained into priesthood in Oniipa, Ovamboland, on 27 September 1925, with a permission granted by the Bishop of Tampere, Jaakko Gummerus.
Nabot Manasse was one of the first seven Ovambo pastors, whom the director of the Finnish Missionary Society, Matti Tarkkanen ordained into priesthood in Oniipa, Ovamboland, on 27 September 1925, with a permission granted by the Bishop of Tampere, Jaakko Gummerus.
Matias Shikondomboro was the first Kavango native to be ordained a Lutheran pastor.
Namibia held elections for their local and regional councils on 27 November 2015.
Ulla Pirkko Nenonen was a Finnish theologian, missionary with the Finnish Missionary Society and Bible translator, who served in missionary work in Namibia during a 54-year span. Of Finnish missionaries, only Martti Rautanen and his wife Frieda and daughter Johanna have served longer in the mission field.
