Both nations enjoy historically good relations, once centered on Polish support for the Namibian struggle for independence and now focused on economic, educational and political cooperation.

[3] Libertina Amathila attended and graduated the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland, becoming the first Namibian female physician, and later also Deputy-Prime Minister of independent Namibia.

[2] A Polish military contingent participated in the United Nations Transition Assistance Group peacekeeping mission in Namibia from April 1989 to March 1990.

[7] In 2022, during a visit in Namibia, Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński declared Poland's support for Namibian efforts to seek reparations from Germany for the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904–1908.

[8] In 2023, Uria Nandiuasora Mazeingo, chairman of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation, and David Hanse, chief of the ǃKharakhoen Nama clan, were guests at a convention in Warsaw alongside Polish and Greek representatives to discuss efforts to seek war reparations from Germany for the crimes it committed in Namibia, Poland and Greece.