Namibia: ‘You Can’t Wake Up Today and Tell Africans to Stop Cooking With Fire’

African Arguments spoke to Namibia’s Industrialisation and Trade Minister about industrial strategy, unjust trade, and green hydrogen controversies.

Namibia exports mostly unprocessed goods – like minerals, beef, and fish – and imports almost all its consumer goods. How is your ministry attempting to change this imbalance?

We are now looking at interventions to make sure much of what we process is grown locally, has value-added locally, and is distributed locally. For example, we have a school…