| Hosea Kuṱako | |||||
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| Leader of Ovaherero people. | |||||
 Grave of Chief Hosea Kuṱako near Friedenskirche, Okahandja | |||||
| Born | 1870 Okahurimehi, near Kalkfeld | ||||
| Died | 18 July 1970 (aged 100) Aminuis Reserve | ||||
| Burial | near Friedenskirche, Okahandja | ||||
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Chief Hosea Katjikururume Komombumbi Kutako (1870 – 18 July 1970), was an early Namibian nationalist leader and a founder member of Namibia's first nationalist party, the South West African National Union (SWANU).
"During his life, he experienced the transition from independence to colonization, and the destruction of Herero society and the loss of its lands, although he struggled to regain the freedom and self-determination that he and his society had previously known. Initially Kutako campaigned only for his own people, yet at a very early stage he began campaigning for the freedom and self-determination of all the inhabitants of Namibia. In this, Hosea Kutako can be described as the country’s first truly nationalist politician, a man who strove for the greater good not only for himself but for all. Hosea Kutako was born as a Herero royal, but into a position which, but for the course of history, would never have enabled him to claim leadership of the Herero, let alone of the people of Namibia."