Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery on Saturday following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries.
Mourners from all corners of the country began to gather as early as 6 a.m. to pay their final tributes to a man they knew as their “founding father,” an anti-apartheid activist who served three terms as president from 1990 to 2005.
