Tribal chief smoking a pipe poses for a photo The main Herero festival is held in Okahandja on Maherero day August Namibia

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Friendly tribal chief smoking a pipe poses for a photo The main Herero festival is held in Okahandja on Maherero day which falls on the last weekend in August each year Various paramilitary style groups parade before their chiefs The Herero are a pastoral cattle breeding people It is thought they migrated from the east African lakes area arriving in Namibia in the 17th century Their initial home was in Kaokoland near the Kunene River but c 1850 a large portion of the Herero population moved southwards leaving the Himba and Tjimba tribal groups

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Location: Namibia
Photo credit: © J Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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