This episode is about ancient and contemporary Himba music. I actually had visited quite a few Himba villages to find these ancient children songs. I mean those once, which were used to tell the children old …
Today’s hunting horn is an instrument you even find in classical orchestras. The “cattle gun” is something similar. It is an original authentic Himba instrument and used to move the cattle. The “cattle gun” is produced …
This is actually the episode, for which the famous Damaraland Trio provided us with two examples of contemporary Damaraland music. I actually met these ladies during …
The story of the Riemvasmaak community is sad and takes us to South Africa’s dark apartheid area where under the umbrella of the so called black spot removal program people where send by brutal …
If you like to listen to authentic Damara music then this Episode is for you. It contains ancient Damara children songs which you are unlikely to find anywhere else. Many books about Namibia introduce …