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Oshigambo is a village situated in the Northern part of Namibia, which is 50 km north west of Ondangwa town, which is one of the main towns in Namibia. It consists of different small villages such as Ekamba, Omunduungilo, Oyovu, Omapumba, Ozizi, Ondembo, Okahenge, Okakwiyu and so on, just to mention a few.
It consists of a Circuit office as well, which includes all the schools in the sarrounding area, and it controls them, such as Primary, Combined, Junior Sercondary and Senior Secondary Schools in the sarroundings. The most popular High School, Oshigambo High School is the most famous school in the north and its fame is brought about due to its academic performance, self-discipline among students, hard-working and its high participation in sports and spiritual activities such as the Student Christian Movement.
The village also consists of its own congregation, Oshigambo Christian Congregation, which operates under the Evangelican Lutheran Church in Namibia which gather every Sunday for a church service which last about 2 hours. The service starts from 10h00 up to 12h00. There are different activities that takes place within the congregation such as women choirs, youth choirs, budget plan for that specific year, Sunday school, and so on. There are also different shops within the village, supermarkets, bars and cuca shops that sells different goods and provide customers with services as they need them. On the other hand, there is also a post office, whereby there is an Assistant Postwoman who deals with different services that the villagers and different clients may neede during the course of the week, such as general enquiries, banking, statements, withdrawals, copies, printing and so forth. There are also health services that are provided by the clinic. This clinic was built by the Ministry of Health and Social Services after independence, due to trhe reason that the nearby Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital is far from the village and it is populated there. This clinic was re-built in 2005 to put more improved facilities as well as counselling programmes and so on. There is a river which runs across thge village, which does not carry water throughout the year. It flows from Angola to Etosha Pan. It divides Oshigambo High School male and female Hostels. Flooding cases were reported in caused by flooding from Angola, in which one was reported in 2006 and the other in 2011[1], in which two death cases were reported on for a Grade 8 school girl and a member of the Namibian Defence Force whereby a boat which belongs to Namibian Defence Force carrying school girl[2] from their hostel across the overflowing river overturned.