Hosea Kutako

Hosea Kutako (* 1870, † July 18, 1970 in Okahandja ) was from 1925 until his death of traditional leaders living in Namibia OvaHerero.

The Herero after the war fled abroad leader Samuel Maharero could not exercise his chief official of the few surviving Herero in Southwest Africa on the basis of the entry ban the South African mandate management. He therefore authorized his son Frederik Maharero, 1920 to appoint the people living in South-West Africa Hosea Kutako the leader. Hosea Kutako knew his leader office before mainly as an obligation to the memory of the once proud time of the Herero and hold up during the German colonial period and the horrors of the Battle of Waterberg. He founded in 1920 the traditional association of the Green Flagg and - after the death Mahareros - 1923 the Association of the Red Flagg. Kutako led and organized the transfer of the body of Samuel Maharero and its burial in Okahandja next to the grave of Jonker Afrikaner. He is also the founding of Truppenspieler organization owe; Although they should obtain from the founding idea here quite a military significance, but attracted both the South African mandate management as well as Sam Nujoma, the co-founder of the resistance movement SWAPO, to contradiction. Thus the importance of Truppenspieler limited to the cultural accompaniment, especially the Herero day.

In 1959, Hosea Kutako with Sam Nujoma, the South West Africa National Union ( SWANU ) - an organization which merged a year later in SWAPO. Despite his age Hosea Kutako has been used in particular to the independence of Namibia and later worked until his death in it. In recognition of his merit while the International airport of the capital Windhoek was named after him after independence.

  • Traditional leaders in Namibia
  • History ( Namibia)
  • Man
  • Born 1870
  • Died in 1970
  • Herero
Herero people
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