Ovamboland People's Organization

Ovamboland People's Organization
Abbreviation OPO
President Sam Nujoma (1959 - 1960)
Chairperson Lucas Haleinge Nepela
Founder Andimba Toivo ya Toivo
Sam Nujoma
Founded 19 April 1959, Cape Town, South Africa
Ideology African nationalism
Political position Centre-left
Party flag

The Ovamboland People's Organization is a defunct nationalist organization that advocated an independent Ovamboland (Namibia). Andimba Toivo ya Toivo and Sam Nujoma founded the OPO in 1959, Lucas Haleinge Nepela became its first chairperson.[1] A year later, the organization sought a pan-ethnic independence for the country and formed into the South West Africa People's Organization.[2]

On December 10, 1959, police shot and killed 11 protesters in Windhoek's Old Location,[3] forcing OPO leaders to go into exile and create the South-West Africa People's Organization.[4]

References

  1. Xoagub, Francis (3 July 2012). "Liberation struggle pioneer honoured". New Era.
  2. Dictionary of African historical biography "Sam Nujoma", Page 280, 1989
  3. "History of Old Location and Katutura". Namibweb. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
  4. Peter N. Stearns and William Leonard Langer. The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged, 2001. Page 1070.


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