Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who became Namibia's founding president after leading the country to independence from ...

Before independence in 1990, Mr. Nujoma directed a Cold War-era insurgency against South African control of the mineral-rich ...

Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its ...

Revered as "father of the nation" and the icon of Namibia's liberation struggle, Sam Nujoma lived up to these expectations in ...

Sam Nujoma, a former railway worker who served as Namibia’s president for 15 years after leading the diamond-rich nation’s ...

Samuel (Sam) Shafishuna (“lightning”) Daniel Nujoma was born on 12 May 1929 at Etunda near Okahao in northern Namibia in today’s Omusati region, the eldest of 11 children. His childhood was ...

Sam Nujoma, a former guerrilla leader who became the first president of Namibia after decades of battling South African control of the sparsely populated but mineral-rich expanse in one of the ...

Nujoma has been called the country's founding father after leading the fight for independence from South Africa.

By Alan Cowell Sam Nujoma, the founding president of an independent Namibia, who led a Soviet-backed guerrilla army in an uneven fight against the vastly superior forces of white-ruled South ...

FILE - Namibian and ruling Swapo party President Sam Nujoma speaks during an election rally in Windhoek, Namibia, Nov. 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File) FILE - Namibian and ruling Swapo ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, and was known as the father of the nation ...