ABSTRACT
On March 21, 1990, the day that Namibia obtained its independence after twenty-nine years of German colonial rule and a further seventy-five years of South African occupation, an interesting bumper sticker was available for sale in some local tourist shops. The sticker proclaimed, “Sleep with a Southwester—We need more of them!” (Figure 15.1). In one corner it contained a phrase, in German, that asserted, “I love Southwest.” Here, as a new nation was being born, was evidence of a certain nostalgia for a colonial space that was being relabeled and refashioned.
