Namibia: President Hage G Geingob – a Scholar President and a Force of Nature

I am humbled to have been accorded the opportunity to speak on behalf of the private office in the Presidency about the third president of the Republic of Namibia, Hage Geingob.

I also feel the unbearable weight of the task.

In his melancholic poem, ‘Solo La Muerte’, which translates into English as ‘Only Death’, the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate and controversial Chilean activist, Pablo Neruda, says the following about death in the two stanzas that we have selected:

“Death arrives at…