Owambo Culture: Food

Zoe Makes Oshifima!
Join Volunteer Zoe as she learns the step-by step process of making "oshifima" (mahangu porridge) in the "epata" (outdoor kitchen). These are essential parts of Owambo cultural traditions throughout northern Namibia.

[@eunicekapweya6507]

Wow! Am proud to know my culture very well!

[@timoteushaimbangu6015]

In the beginning of times that's how they came

[@luciakalipi2286]

wow. Proud of you

[@jojoemiliahamushila2727]

Proudly Namibian

[@shon2365]

I’m a black American descendant of slavery, and I recently found out I have some Ovambo Ancestry.

[@mariashilongo2863]

Really, wow. That's something hey

[@mariashilongo2863]

Please do come

[@emmanabi1283]

Sweet

[@ekiamediambedeka5188]

Yes, that is very likely. It is said that the people of southern Africa were actually the first to be shipped to America by the Portuguese. At first from Angola and then later to the neighboring boundaries, like Southern Angola, where you will find the Aawambo people and to the Congo. However, it was not to the numbers as was happening in West Africa.

[@jolokenikunga-kohe6883]

Oh, come visit.

[@talentsearcher1665]

coming back to Namibia shortly

[@bentoefremteenage4869]

Oshifima(Poridge) taste very well!!!!!!!!

[@lydiatimoteus9835]

Wow

[@ROAMINGBD]

very nice

[@ernestochinhama1722]

The same people or culture of Ovimbundo (Huambo, Bié, Benguela) in Angola? words are similar...

[@ilenishiweda7292]

I want to join a group of traditional food any one can add on that..

[@hailongaphilipus]

come back again

[@sarafinafrans6191]

Awesome!

[@shikukumwalaura6637]

I also want to join peace corp

[@shiningayamwethomas6841]

My wife she doesn't how to prepare porridge I'm jealous now she is French

[@pollypooleheitha3357]

This teaches us and the outside world how to prepare ovambo traditional porridge, dried spinach and fish. But I would like the narrator/author to film a much bigger and well prepared meal. For example, from cow milking, to traditional butter, to slaughter a cow or a goat and the process goes on, meal is prepared and ready to serve for a visitor ect. Nowadays the youth lives in cities and misses out on cultural norms and values, and the only way to teach and educate the future generations, is through social media platforms. Under corrections please!