Namibia is an Afrikan country, with problems and challenges that are Afrikan in nature, shape and character. The majority of Namibians are Afrikan people and suffer from Afrikan diseases and syndromes - they are possessed by the same demons of lack of vision, greed and power hunger, corruption, abuse of official power to fix opponents, lack oppositional alternatives and fear of new ideas and taboos.
Like all of Afrika, Namibia possesses the potential to grow into ripeness and become a better place for all who live in it. Differently put, there is very little evidence to celebrate that Namibia is different, any more than Zimbabwe was different in the 1980s. If Afrika is doomed, Namibia doomed, and if Africa can get out of the rut of underdevelopment through the prowess of her people, so can and will Namibia.
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