Tsumeb is a small mining town about 250 km from the Angolan border. The city center looks very American, one shopping street with non-descript South-African supermarkets, a grid of suburban streets behind the main street, a small German church, a park with lawns and flowerbeds.
However, Namibia feels strange and schizophrenic after the Angolan exuberance. The […]

Santa Clara is very much the average Angolan town, leaving aside the countless hostelerias and pensao’s along the main street. At the other side of the border, Oshikango looks like an American mall strip with warehouses and supermarkets lining the road, all busy with Angolans hopping across to do their shopping. Not only is Namibia […]