Himba is a nomadic people, originally from the tribe of the Herero speaking in a dialect orihime.
People engaged in hunting, gathering and herding.
Like in Africa today almost never find: a completely primitive way of life left for these people is natural, not ostentatious.
Unlike the East African Masai, who for decades living by extortion from tourists and run headlong to dress in “traditional” clothes, barely seeing over the horizon, the dust from under the wheels of a tour bus, himba and Herero really are. They lead a semi-sedentary-semi-nomadic tribal existence in the almost lifeless desert in conditions of severe water deficit. And not because they “failed out”, and because of the desire to preserve their culture and identity.
French photographer Eric Laforge plunges us into the world of Namibian tribes living near the Kunene river.
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