(The Himba tribe in northern Namibia)

When a new visitor arrives, the man gives him his wife to spend the night with him, and this is known as "gifting the wife to the guest" and in their language it is called "Okogibisa Omokazindo" while the husband sleeps in another room, and in the absence of a room, her husband sleeps outside the house, believing that this movement is reduced From jealousy and strengthens the relationship between them.

The most prominent features of the "Himba": Women are not allowed to use water for bathing and they do not wear clothes, because the tribe maintains the term "primitive", so clothes do not mean much to them and their bodies are only covered by a small cowhide skirt and the upper half remains exposed to suit the hot climate in which they live.

Bathing is replaced by hot steam by placing pieces of burning charcoal in a small bowl containing leaves and small branches of trees and waiting for smoke fumes to rise and lean over the bowl and begin to sweat to wash the entire body, and cover themselves with a piece of cloth so that the smoke traps in their bodies.

Women wake up in the morning under the scorching sun, to start their journey in search of food and milk from the cows and herding sheep and makins. They are a group of women who live on the ruins and know nothing about clothes, fashion and fashion. thinking.

They care about their bodies and their hair and are keen to manufacture the "red ocher" cream, which consists of cutting the "hematite" stone into small pieces, mixing it with butter and heating it a little using smoke and placing it on the skin and hair. This habit goes back to the tribal sheikhs who tried to apply the red ocher cream Differentiate between men and women.

The "Himba" women live most of the time in the open air in a hot climate and are keen to put that red layer on their skin to resist the scorching rays of the sun, in addition to that this substance contributes to maintaining clean and moist skin, prevents hair growth on the body and avoids insect bites.

The population of the Himba reaches more than 50 thousand people and they are a polygamous people, where girls are married to males by choosing their parents as soon as they reach puberty, and not by choosing any of them, for they have no decision or opinion