The Damara People 🇳🇦🇿🇦🇧🇼 Together with the Bushman, the Damara belong to the oldest nations in Namibia. The Damara are thought to be of Bantu origin who speak a Khoisan dialect. It is speculated that the Damara were the first people to migrate to Namibia from the north. Their original culture was a mixture of an archaic hunter-gatherer culture and herders of cattle, goats and sheep. Due to their loose social structures the Damara were not able to ‘defend’ their culture during the colonizat