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Olukonda is a settlement in the Oshikoto Region in the north of Namibia. It is the district capital of the Olukonda electoral constituency. During colonial time of German South West Africa the missionary station and settlement was known as the Capital of the North.[1]

Olukonda has been the place of the first missionary station to the Ovambo people, founded in 1870 by Finnish missionaries. In the 1880s Martti Rautanen, nicknamed Nakambale, became missionary at Olukonda and initiated the building of a church in 1889, and a missionary house in 1893.[2] Both the church and the mission station buildings are still existent and have been declared National Monuments of Namibia in 1992. Together they are now known as the Olukonda National Monument.[1] The missionary station houses the Nakambale Museum, and the church, although not anymore in regular use, is infrequently utilised for wedding ceremonies.[3]Olukonda

With more than five schools now.,Olukonda became a very large and developed village.There is a clinic now close to the Nakambale Museum and also close to that clinic is a centre named Lyaangula Centre named after a pastor Efraim Angula with even an office of gender equality to help fight for Gender Equality in Olukonda.

Nakambale Museum and Rest Camp started operating in 1995 with Financial assistance from the Finland Government to expand the Camp a few years ago.There is a camping area were people can go camp and also a tradtional Owambo homestead.The camp is situated just about 5km from Onethindi.There is a church and just behind that church is the Nakambale Museum and Rest Camp.You can also go visit the Late Martti Rautanen and familys' graves. Olukonda is such a beautiful place so go there and see for your self. .Seeing is believing.Good luck.http://baobabguides.com/2010/05/04/nakambale-museum-and-rest-camp-ondangwa-namibia/