Namibia: Lingering Presence of the Colonial – Lifestyle

The Windhoek Old Location, History and Photographs – Henning Melber, Dieter Hinrichs

The late enlightened historian Tony Judt, who wrote with remarkable insight on the past century and a host of other topics, remarked that: “The bigger your frame of reference, the flimsier your grasp of detail and local knowledge.”

He continued to say: “It is the middle ground that matters – the space between local detail and global theorem – and this tends even today to be nationally…