Yea, makes sense. I had hoped the Herero/Nama would be somewhat self-governing, as in, have the means in place to collectively invest in local infrastructure already - but that's probably a naive assumption of mine. I just know too little about the situation in Namibia, especially regarding these peoples' context within it. Still, the state picking representatives as opposed to them deciding on their own representatives really rubs me the wrong way with this whole thing.