came here to say that. those history storylines from V. were hard to get through but the one in Namibia was fascinating. the guy really put me into the mind of a mass murdering german.
also, I just read through Namibia's wiki...50% of all income is owned by 10% of the pop, while 20% lives on <2$ a day(apparently this classifies the country as 'high middle income'). a large chunk of the country doesnt have access to toilets that flush so they pee and poo in publicly acknowledged pee and poo areas. it's got a fully privatized banking sector that seems to attract global capital, and the government deliberately reduces the barriers to entry for doing business.
I'm starting to think being ranked on Bloombergs top 20 emerging markets is not a very good thing. in fact maybe colonialism never really came to end...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
Germany didn't recognize it as genocide until 2015. There's a chapter in Pynchon's V. about it that's pretty good(and fucking awful).
came here to say that. those history storylines from V. were hard to get through but the one in Namibia was fascinating. the guy really put me into the mind of a mass murdering german.
also, I just read through Namibia's wiki...50% of all income is owned by 10% of the pop, while 20% lives on <2$ a day(apparently this classifies the country as 'high middle income'). a large chunk of the country doesnt have access to toilets that flush so they pee and poo in publicly acknowledged pee and poo areas. it's got a fully privatized banking sector that seems to attract global capital, and the government deliberately reduces the barriers to entry for doing business.
I'm starting to think being ranked on Bloombergs top 20 emerging markets is not a very good thing. in fact maybe colonialism never really came to end...