="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovamboland" title="Ovamboland">Ovamboland</a>, <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Africa" title="Southwest Africa" class="mw-redirect">Southwest Africa</a> on May 12, 1929. Nujoma was born to <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvi_Mpingana_Kondombolo" title="Helvi Mpingana Kondombolo">Helvi Mpingana Kondombolo</a> (1898-2008) and Daniel Uutoni Nujoma. He is the eldest of his parents' eleven children. He spent much of his early childhood looking after his siblings and tendin