Namacunde

Namacunde or Namakunde is a town and municipality in Cunene Province in Angola.

Namacunde mission was founded in 1900 by the German missionary Wilhelm Ickler.

At the time it was thought that the area was part of German South West Africa.

Just as Ickler had begun the construction of the third mission German mission station in Oukwanyama, he fell ill with malaria and blackwater fever and died on 22 June 1900.

[3] Namakunde lies on the route of the proposed railway linking Angola and Namibia.