Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part ...

As president of the South West Africa Peoples' Organisation (Swapo), Nujoma shuttled from capital to capital seeking support for the independence cause. Swapo launched an armed struggle in 1966 ...

Sam Nujoma, the guerilla commander who led Namibia's fight for independence from South Africa and became its first democratically elected president, has died at the age of 95. "Our Founding Father ...

It also says that its independence claim is consistent with a longstanding norm of the African Union and its predecessor that colonial-era borders should be maintained. Some analysts also note ...