Viva Nambia!
Maybe it is the law of unintended consequences, maybe it is just good plain old ignorance, but the result was still the same.
Namibia received a very welcome and spectacular, priceless, free boost of global awareness and promotion as a country, when the most powerful man in the world mispronounced (or invented) it at an annual gathering of the United Nations recently.
As the old saying goes: any exposure is good exposure… even better when it does not cost hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising costs.
Millions of people around the world were introduced through google, social, or news media platforms, to a country, which many didn't even know existed. They were introduced to a country blessed with spectacular beauty and natural resources, which will hopefully have a positive future impact on its tourism and related industries.
They were introduced to a country, which defied the greatest odds after its independence and became a really tolerant, vibrant nation with a real “can do” attitude towards building a prosperous nation for all. Unfortunately, they were also introduced to a country, which has in recent years became bogged down within itself, with a really stale and complacent attitude towards tolerance and the things that made it great in the first place.
They were introduced to a country with devastating and crippling social problems, as experienced by a big part of her population, with a seemingly “don't care, cannot be bothered” attitude expressed by many of her people elected, with great hope, to address these very issues in the first place.
Hopefully this added international interest and scrutiny will help to inspire good governance and less corrupt practices from the bottom, to the highest level of her society. Hopefully, her president, beaming with pride after his exposure to and interaction with the most powerful man on earth, will find a new lease on life to start doing and implementing the grandiose plans, which have until recently, only been talk in the wind, condemned to the dustbin of history, at their current rate of progress and implementation.
Hopefully, further scrutiny will expose and eradicate the practices that are bleeding her dry and are in the process of beggaring a once proud, prosperous nation and turning it into a haven for the few and leaving behind and forgetting the many, which so often paid the highest price at the altar of human sacrifice.
Namibia received a very welcome and spectacular, priceless, free boost of global awareness and promotion as a country, when the most powerful man in the world mispronounced (or invented) it at an annual gathering of the United Nations recently.
As the old saying goes: any exposure is good exposure… even better when it does not cost hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising costs.
Millions of people around the world were introduced through google, social, or news media platforms, to a country, which many didn't even know existed. They were introduced to a country blessed with spectacular beauty and natural resources, which will hopefully have a positive future impact on its tourism and related industries.
They were introduced to a country, which defied the greatest odds after its independence and became a really tolerant, vibrant nation with a real “can do” attitude towards building a prosperous nation for all. Unfortunately, they were also introduced to a country, which has in recent years became bogged down within itself, with a really stale and complacent attitude towards tolerance and the things that made it great in the first place.
They were introduced to a country with devastating and crippling social problems, as experienced by a big part of her population, with a seemingly “don't care, cannot be bothered” attitude expressed by many of her people elected, with great hope, to address these very issues in the first place.
Hopefully this added international interest and scrutiny will help to inspire good governance and less corrupt practices from the bottom, to the highest level of her society. Hopefully, her president, beaming with pride after his exposure to and interaction with the most powerful man on earth, will find a new lease on life to start doing and implementing the grandiose plans, which have until recently, only been talk in the wind, condemned to the dustbin of history, at their current rate of progress and implementation.
Hopefully, further scrutiny will expose and eradicate the practices that are bleeding her dry and are in the process of beggaring a once proud, prosperous nation and turning it into a haven for the few and leaving behind and forgetting the many, which so often paid the highest price at the altar of human sacrifice.
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