Oshikuku is a village in Omusati Region in the north of Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

. It is the district capital of Oshikuku Constituency

Oshikuku Constituency

Oshikuku Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Omusati Region of Namibia. It has 8,089 inhabitants, its district capital is the village of Oshikuku....

 and scheduled to be upgraded to "town" status before November 2010.

Oshikuku features a secondary school, Nuuyoma Senior Secondary School, and a hospital. Oshikuku was the first mission station in former Ovamboland

Ovamboland

Ovamboland was the name given by English-speaking visitors to the land occupied by the Ovambo people in what is now northern Namibia and southern Angola...

, established 1924 under the leadership of missionary and later Archbishop

Archbishop

An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

 Joseph Gotthardt

Joseph Gotthardt

Joseph Gotthardt was a Catholic missionary and later Bishop and Archbishop in South-West Africa . He was the first to set up missions in the Kavango Region and in Ovamboland, became the first Vicar Apostolic of Windhoek.-Early life and missionary work :Gotthardt was born in Thalheim in the German...

 and today is home to a Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholicism in Namibia

The Roman Catholic Church in Namibia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....

 parish and birthplace of Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda

Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda

Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda is a Namibian Roman Catholic archbishop.He was ordained a priest on June 25, 1988. On November 5 ten years later he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Windhoek and was ordained on February 7, 1999 as the Titular Bishop of Pertusa. On November 14, 2004 he became...

, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia. Its neighbouring villages are Outapi, Elim

Elim

- Location :* Elim , a biblical placein Australia* Elim Aboriginal Mission, Queenslandin Namibia* Elim, Namibia, a village in the north-east of the country* Elim Constituency, a constituency in the north-east of the country...

 and Ogongo.

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