Namibia! Namibia!

I have just visited a country that the United Nations seems determined to ruin (not its first victim, to be sure, and probably not its last): South West Africa, now generally called Namibia.

Namibia, a country larger than Texas, has only just over one million inhabitants. Among the whites, the second largest group—after the Afrikaners —is the Germans. The German Kaiserreich laid the foundations of Windhoek, the capital, and one still finds shops and stores that are purely German. Germans provide the “old families” (some of noble origin), and many street names recall the colonial period: Kaiser-Strasse, Bismarck-Strasse, Bülow-Strasse, and so forth. There is a certain Gemütlichkeit about Windhoek that lets one forget the terrorists on the northern border.

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I have just visited a country that the United Nations seems determined to ruin (not its first victim, to be sure, and probably not its last): South West Africa, now generally called Namibia.

Namibia, a country larger than Texas, has only just over one million inhabitants. Among the whites, the second largest group—after the Afrikaners —is the Germans. The German Kaiserreich laid the foundations of Windhoek, the capital, and one still finds shops and stores that are purely German. Germans provide the “old families” (some of noble origin), and many street names recall the colonial period: Kaiser-Strasse, Bismarck-Strasse, Bülow-Strasse, and so forth. There is a certain Gemütlichkeit about Windhoek that lets one forget the terrorists on the northern border.