Kahimemua Nguvauva (c. 1850 – 11 June 1896) was chief of the Ovambanderu, a Herero clan in Namibia (then German South West Africa).
The Germans supported Samuel Maharero to become Paramount Chief, and when his competitors, among them Nguvauva, did not accept this, they were stripped of their chieftaincy.
[3] Nguvauva's resistance eventually led to skirmishes with the German Schutztruppe, the protection force deployed in the colony.
Founding president Sam Nujoma remarked in his inauguration speech on 26 August 2002 that: Chief Kahimemua Nguvauva's strong beliefs and convictions drew the anger of the German colonialists who decided to physically eliminate him.
[6] Nguvauva is honoured in form of a granite tombstone with his name engraved and his portrait plastered onto the slab.