Namibia officially the Republic of Namibia is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean; it shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south and east.
Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 meters (660 feet) of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city are Windhoek.
Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations. Namibia has a population of 2.6 million people and a stable multi-party parliamentary democracy. Agriculture, herding, tourism, and the mining industry including mining for gem diamonds, uranium, gold, silver, and base metals form the basis of its economy.
The large, arid Namib Desert has resulted in Namibia being overall one of the least densely populated countries in the world. In the coastal Atlantic country of Namibia in Northwest Africa, the bride and groom spend the first night after the wedding ceremony is performed separately from each other. A Namibian wedding is characterized by everyone being invited, killing livestock to be eaten, lots of music and dancing, and countless food.
Most of the Namibian population is of Bantu-speaking origin mostly of the Ovambo ethnicity, which forms about half of the population living mainly in the country’s north, although many are now residents in towns throughout Namibia. Other ethnic groups are the Herero and Himba people, who speak a similar language, and the Damara, who speak the same “click” language as the Nama.
After wedding preparations that can take up to a year in Namibia, and after all the excitement of the wedding itself, the bride and groom are technically husband and wife but spend one more night apart.
The second night after the ceremony they may spend together, but shockingly, the marriage is not even considered official until the woman has given birth to her second child! It sounds like an all-around good time but at the end of it all, you had to go home, not this new one with your wife, but the old one as every day before, and wait another whole day before spending the night as husband and wife.
