What if we are already in heaven? This question may sound spiritual but it is deeply political and economic. Across religion, economics and politics, the same moral lesson is preached in different languages: sacrifice now, be rewarded later. Clergymen promise…

Every morning, the traffic on Robert Mugabe Avenue crawls. Sewer lines burst in Katutura. Thousands in Havana and Babylon live in shacks without water, sanitation or power.The symptoms are visible. The underlying question is more pointed: has Windhoek hit its…

History cannot be erased, but it can be confronted, and from that confrontation, a new path can be built. For Namibia and Germany, the coming years will test whether two nations bound by a brutal colonial past can forge a…