Namibia: French Connections and Hopes for Better Health

Esperance Luvindao AS the new minister of health and social services embodies hope for people’s health in Namibia.In French, her name means exactly that – hope.

I happened to be in Paris when the news of her appointment was announced, and there is a great deal this could bring to our country.

Luvindao is in fact the first Namibian of francophone origin in our Cabinet.

\Her late mother was my first French teacher, who told us she had come from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with her husband…