A young Himba woman and her sister bath at Epupa Falls, on the remote border between Namibia and Angola. The Himba people are the last pastoralists living in southern Africa. Their way of life is in danger of being wiped out in the next decade by development and cultural desctruction wrought by the Ovambo, the leading tribe in Namibia and the Himba's historical enemy.

 

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