{"id":195477,"date":"2025-04-05T22:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-opinion-namibia-africas-best-kept-secret\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T22:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:51:26","slug":"africa-opinion-namibia-africas-best-kept-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-opinion-namibia-africas-best-kept-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Opinion &#8211; #namibia &#8211; Africa&#8217;s Best-Kept Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Over the past three weeks, we have monitored the #Namibia hashtag across social media and online platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">What stood out the most were posts about tourism and the country&#8217;s oil and gas development, which is quite evident. But why is this all we are known for?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Is Namibia defined solely by tourism and recent oil and gas discoveries? What about everything else that shapes us &#8211; our broader story and identity?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Nation branding defined<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Nation branding refers to the strategic management of a country&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040259.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past three weeks, we have monitored the #Namibia hashtag across social media and online platforms. What stood out the most were posts about tourism and the country&#8217;s oil and gas development, which is quite evident. But why is this all we are known for? Is Namibia defined solely by tourism and recent oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6287,51053,4706,724,257,12275,6860,254],"class_list":["post-195477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-bestkept","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-secret","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}