In the desert of Namibia’s remote Kunene region bordering Angola, live the Himba, a fascinating, semi-nomadic people whose way of life has virtually remained unchanged from that of their ancestors.

Sarah Pope drives to work every day. It takes the cognitive neuroscientist 10 minutes to get to her lab at the University of Texas at Austin, and 10 minutes to get back home. She thought it was the ...

Microsoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will ...

Non-timber forest product (NTFP) commercialisation can have both detrimental and positive effects on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples yet there is a paucity of empirical studies from which to ...

A recent UC Davis study looks at Namibia’s Himba community, an isolated, agro-pastoralist population in which marriage between people with the same ancestor occurs. (Getty Images) When it comes to the ...

Canadian journalist Shields and photographer Campion, funded by the International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development, spent two months with the Himba people of northern Namibia. In the ...