Ovamboland People's Organization

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. A year later, the organization sought a pan-ethnic independence for the country and formed into the South West Africa People's Organization.^[1]

On December 10, 1959, police shot and killed 11 protesters in Windhoek's Old Location,^[2], forcing OPO leaders to go into exile and create the South-West Africa People's Organization.^[3]

References

1. ^ Dictionary of African historical biography "Sam Nujoma", Page 280, 1989
2. ^ "History of Old Location and Katutura". Namibweb. http://www.namibweb.com/hiskat.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-06. 
3. ^ 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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