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Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by seanery: 6:42pm On Feb 09, 2025
Ooookay
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by tiswell(m): 6:56pm On Feb 09, 2025
Igbos are just everywhere
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by lexy2014: 7:58pm On Feb 09, 2025
xyrexzmanto:
This man have an estate in Galadimawa apo side close to Efab estate. Rest in peace sir.
no be only. are you the one that built if for him?
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by hatchy: 8:04pm On Feb 09, 2025
happney65:
Namibia. They have the best road infrastructure in Africa
Every country in Africa do have the best of every infrastructure except Nigeria because of APC, Tinubu and Buhari.

Idiots.
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by xyrexzmanto: 9:01pm On Feb 09, 2025
Oga browse am out, i no dey carry talk, if u get people for galadimawa ask, them go tell you
lexy2014:
no be only. are you the one that built if for him?
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by lexy2014: 9:10pm On Feb 09, 2025
xyrexzmanto:
Oga browse am out, i no dey carry talk, if u get people for galadimawa ask, them go tell you
are you the one that built if for him? yes or no
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by AngelicBeing: 10:45pm On Feb 09, 2025
lexy2014:
no be only. are you the one that built if for him?
What kind of Tuwo Shinkafa and Okra soup question is this?

Why are you disputing the information of the Guy? sad

He said that the late President of Namibia has an Estate in Abuja and you are asking Namibia questions, like seriously , is it a big deal for an Ex President to own properties in Abuja,? Why all this akamu and akara question huh sad
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by godofuck231: 12:01am On Feb 10, 2025
FREE AT LAST
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by PARADIZEPRIEST: 12:35am On Feb 10, 2025
Hmmm this so sad,sam njomaa one if the best activist that liberated Africa rom white domineeeing infkuence. FRIEND TO MANDELA angry
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by RandDigital: 12:50am On Feb 10, 2025
I grew up seeing him, i knew he was in the same league as Mandela. South Africa never forgets its friends, Nujoma is all over SA news today. RIP SOLDIER!
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by fashrola(m): 6:18am On Feb 10, 2025
Dear Nigerians remember….. Walvis Bay to Windhoek is 5hours 30 mins journey by road and the road has no single pothole and all the road furniture are intact…..
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by lexy2014: 6:44am On Feb 10, 2025
AngelicBeing:
What kind of Tuwo Shinkafa and Okra soup question is this?

Why are you disputing the information of the Guy? sad

He said that the late President of Namibia has an Estate in Abuja and you are asking Namibia questions, like seriously , is it a big deal for an Ex President to own properties in Abuja,? Why all this akamu and akara question huh sad
no be only. are you the one that built if for him?

What kind of Tuwo Shinkafa and Okra soup question is this?

Why are you disputing the information of the Guy? sad

He said that the late President of Namibia has an Estate in Abuja and you are asking Namibia questions, like seriously , is it a big deal for an Ex President to own properties in Abuja,? Why all this akamu and akara question huh sad
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by AngelicBeing: 7:24am On Feb 10, 2025
lexy2014:
no be only. are you the one that built if for him?

What kind of Tuwo Shinkafa and Okra soup question is this?

Why are you disputing the information of the Guy? sad

He said that the late President of Namibia has an Estate in Abuja and you are asking Namibia questions, like seriously , is it a big deal for an Ex President to own properties in Abuja,? Why all this akamu and akara question huh sad
What kind of Tim Hortons & Croissant 🥐 questions is this, like seriously sad
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by Mrexcell(m): 10:36am On Feb 10, 2025
xyrexzmanto:
This man have an estate in Galadimawa apo side close to Efab estate. Rest in peace sir.
Here in nigeria?
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by lexy2014: 11:45am On Feb 10, 2025
AngelicBeing:
What kind of Tim Hortons & Croissant 🥐 questions is this, like seriously sad
AngelicBeing:
What kind of Tuwo Shinkafa and Okra soup question is this?

Why are you disputing the information of the Guy? sad

He said that the late President of Namibia has an Estate in Abuja and you are asking Namibia questions, like seriously , is it a big deal for an Ex President to own properties in Abuja,? Why all this akamu and akara question huh sad
no be only. are you the one that built if for him?

What kind of Tuwo Shinkafa and Okra soup question is this?

Why are you disputing the information of the Guy? sad

He said that the late President of Namibia has an Estate in Abuja and you are asking Namibia questions, like seriously , is it a big deal for an Ex President to own properties in Abuja,? Why all this akamu and akara question huh sad
Re: Namibia's 'founding Father' Sam Nujoma Dies Aged 95 by Konquest: 8:37pm On Feb 10, 2025
God1000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWp27oHOMYs


WINDHOEK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Sam Nujoma , the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its independence from apartheid South Africa, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namibian Presidency said on Sunday.

Nujoma rose to head the thinly populated southern African country on March 21, 1990 and was formally recognised as "Founding Father of the Namibian Nation" through a 2005 act of parliament.

The acclaim was balanced out by domestic and international criticism over his intolerance of critical media coverage, his railing against homosexuality and over the 1998 constitutional amendment that let him run for a third term.


He was a longtime ally of Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe, backing Mugabe's land seizures from white farmers, though at home Nujoma stuck to a "willing buyer, willing seller" policy.

The foundations of the Republic of Namibia have been shaken," the presidency posted on X.
"Our venerable leader, Dr. Nujoma did not only blaze the trail to freedom – but he also inspired us to rise to our feet and to become masters of this vast land of our ancestors."
The presidency said Nujoma had been hospitalised for medical treatment over the past three weeks, adding: "Unfortunately, this time, the most gallant son of our land could not recover from his illness."

COMPLEX LEGACY

Nujoma served his three terms as president from 1990 to 2005 and sought to project himself as a unifying leader bridging political divides.

In a country scarred by the legacy of apartheid and German colonial rule, Nujoma's SWAPO party oversaw a national reconciliation programme under the motto "One Namibia, One Nation".

In his speeches, Nujoma made a point of repeating the phrase: "A united people, striving to achieve a common good for all members of the society, will always emerge victorious."


His achievements included establishing democratic institutions and prioritising reconciliation, said Ndumba Kamwanyah, a lecturer at the University of Namibia and a political analyst.
But his autocratic tendencies, on display in his treatment of the media and brutal suppression of the 1999 Caprivi rebellion, cast a shadow over his legacy, Kamwanyah added.
"While Nujoma's presidency was foundational in establishing Namibia's independence and governance, it was not without flaws,"

Kamwanyah said.

CAMPAIGNER AND GUERRILLA

Nujoma was born in a village in northwestern Namibia in 1929, when his country was under South African administration. South Africa had controlled Namibia since World War One after a brutal few decades of German colonial rule remembered for the genocide of the Herero and Nama people.

As a boy he looked after his family's cattle and attended a Finnish mission school, before moving to the coastal town of Walvis Bay and then the capital Windhoek, where he worked for South African Railways, according to a biography posted on the website of Nujoma's charitable foundation.

Nujoma left his job on the railways to focus his energies on bringing down the apartheid system.


In the late 1950s he became leader of the Owambo People's Organisation, a precursor to liberation movement SWAPO, organising resistance to the forced relocation of Black people in Windhoek that culminated in the police killing 12 unarmed people and wounding dozens more.


Nujoma was charged with organising the resistance and arrested. In 1960, he went into exile. He travelled across Africa before reaching the United States, where he petitioned the United Nations for Namibia's independence.

Made SWAPO leader in absentia, Nujoma established its armed wing and in 1966 launched a guerrilla war against the apartheid government.

It took more than a decade of pressure from Nujoma and others before a U.N. Security Council resolution in 1978 proposed a ceasefire and elections, and another decade for the ceasefire deal to be signed and elections held in late 1989.

SWAPO won a majority in those elections, and Nujoma took office in March the following year.


https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/namibias-founding-father-sam-nujoma-dies-aged-95-presidency-says-2025-02-09/
The great Sam Nujoma has taken on a higher state of vibration at the age of 95! "Iroko ti wo." It's the end of an era in African and international history. How can I ever forget the anti-White liberation movements such as SWAPO, ANC's militant wing and the chants of "Mkhonto Wesizwe!" or "Spear of the Nation, " and the liberation movement for decolonization from White rule in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) led by the lawyer, Robert Mugabe. All these made Southern Africa a hotbed for the brave resistance movement fighters. In all these, the Nigerian Federal Government was basking in the oil boom of the 1970s right into 1981, and a few years more when Nigeria was funding the liberation struggles in Southern African countries and offered scholarships into Nigerian schools from high school to university for especially Namibians, South Africans, etc.

I remember a young and rugged former fighter of Sam Nujoma's SWAPO from Namibia was given a Nigerian Federal scholarship to the school I attended back in Nigeria and he couldn't speak a drop of English. But a few years down the road before I left, he had become fluent in spoken English. Nigeria really gave assistance to those South African countries during the liberation movement years of which I'm proud of. The younger generation in those Southern African countries may NO fully grasp the essence of the assistance from Nigeria (and other friendly countries around the world), but the older folks such as former SA President Thabo Mbeki who schooled in Nigeria still remember these specifics.

#SamNujoma
#Respect
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