Namibia: Hage Geingob Was Larger Than Life

They say teachers in Ethiopia used to tell schoolchildren that if former Emperor Haile Selassie were to die, the sun would not rise. Paradoxically, on 4 February 2024, the sun rose and set as if nothing had happened.

Indeed, 4 February would go down in the annals of Namibian history as the day on which death robbed us of a sitting popular president elected by his own people.

The collective emotional pain of all our people is real, regardless of ethnicity, age or gender. Since Geingob’s passing,…