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Ngoma settlement Ngoma is a settlement situated in the north-eastern part of Namibia in Caprivi region along the Chobe River. It is one of the border posts between Namibia and Botswana. To access this area, one has to drive 70 kilometers east of katima Mulilo through the B8 route (Trans-Caprivi Highway). The area is in the woodland savanna and is dominated mostly by Terminelia sericea tree which is translated as Muguba in the local language. The area has many different villages that are mainly family villages along the B8 route, but some villages are far away from the B8 route. Ngoma has a police station (Ngoma Police Station), prison, clinic, itenge lodge, craft centre and a border post (Ngoma Border Post) to Botswana. The area falls under Kabe constituency and the main language spoken by the community is subia which is one of the common languages in Caprivi for the masubia tribe. Ngoma’s shopping centre is situated at the border post and is composed of the following shops: •	Lukulu Bar •	Ngoma general dealer •	Itenge store •	Kachepati bottle store Various bottle stores and grocery stall can still be found in different villages where they sell different items including traditionally made beer. Two government schools that are found in Ngoma are as follow: •	Ngoma Primary School •	Mafwila Senior Secondary School which is situated along the Chobe River. Most of the community houses are built with mud and thatching grass and reeds are used for making a lapa. The type of music mostly played by the community is sungura music which is believed to originate from Zimbabwe, but local artists in Caprivi have also contributed to sungura music by producing sugura songs which they sing in their own language (Subia). The communities rely mostly on farming with maize, livestock and fishing for their source of food and income and borehole is the common source of water for the community. Most of their crop fields are in the flood plain along the Chobe River. According to Mwilima (2001), he states that the most common fish species consumed by the local communities in Caprivi are the Cat Fish (Clarius gariepinus) and Serranochromis robustus which mostly harvested from the Zambezi and Chobe Rivers. However, the community that rely only farming fro source of food and income experience problems during the flood as their crop fields become submerged and there is a rising concern of human wildlife conflict which results in the community fields being trampled by wild-animals such as Elephants. Ngoma manage its wildlife through a conservancy called Salambala Conservancy which was named after the couple named Nsala and Mbala. Ngoma Conservancy is management by a committee which is composed of members representing the nearby villages. The following are the major wildlife that can be found in the conservancy: Lion, Elephant, buffalo, Waterbuck, Tsesebe, Kudu, Duiker, Reedbuck, Common impala, Blue Wildebeest, lechwe, Hippo, Plain zebra, Warthog and Steenbok. According to Louis and Denker (2010), they state that, conservancies are there to ensure livelihood diversification, rural development and to provide new strategies for land use, but not to replace existing land use such as crop production and livestock. Ngoma also has a community forest which is managed by the Department of forestry in the Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Rura Water Supply.The community forest is planted with Eucalyptus trees and other various trees. The eucalyptus trees are planted so that they can be harvested for building purpose.

Reference 1.	Mwilima, E. (2001). A comparison of the consumption (by the local population) of the two common fish species (Clarius gariepinus and Serranochromis robustus) between a fishing site in the Zambezi and Chobe Rivers. Windhoek: Polytechnic of Namibia, Department of Nature conservation. 2. Schoeman, A. (2010). What are conservancies really about; Conservation and the environment in Namibia (E.d). Windhoek: Venture publisher.