Namibia: Nandi-Ndaitwah’s home village Okongo celebrates Namibia’s first woman president – Elections

Okongo, a village in northern Namibia, is deemed to be ‘behind’.

This was until Tuesday, when it was revealed that Namibia’s first woman president-elect, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, was produced by this village.

“Okongo was always perceived as a less significant place. People from towns would look down on us when we said we were from Okongo,” says Letisia Mweshitya from Oshiti sha Haihonya near Okongo.

She says some regard Okongo as far from civilisation.

“We are excited…