And their belongings are everything that can be contained inside a bag. For people constantly travelling this is the size of their property, it is the unit of measure of an object, the court of law which judges its duration.
If 15,000 members of the Himba tribe still lead a free and wild life, this is due to their hard and inflexible land, which no foreign power has ever managed to tame. And woe to anyone who touches it. The central government knows something about this: for ten years now it has been planning to build a dam, 80-kilometre wide and 30-km long in the Kunene valley. It would be sufficient to provide lighting during the night for the capital Windhoek and possibly for the whole of Namibia.