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====OSHAKATI===

While the rest of Namibia strives to be European in Africa, the road to Oshakati leads straight into Africa. There are a number of routes to Oshakati from all over Namibia, but you only really know that you are on the way when you see the first huts and cuca shops.

Central northern Namibia is regarded as ‘home’ by most members of the Oshiwambo culture, the largest group of people in Namibia. On every major holiday, and on as many weekends as possible, many Oshiwambo people will take the opportunity to head north to the family’s farmstead. It is an exodus that leaves everywhere else slightly understaffed and frustrated.

Oshakati lies at the center of the central northern area, and as such, enjoys the status of a ‘second capital’. Roughly half of Namibia’s population claims a home within comfortable driving distance of the town, although it is useful to bear in mind that a two or three hour drive is regarded as comfortable in Namibia.Oskakati is between Ongwediva and Oshikuku town.

The culture of Oshakati is wrapped up in the extended family. Everyone is a cousin or a second cousin to about a hundred other people with whom they will meet and exchange lengthy, formalized greetings.