My focus will be on development - promoting investment and increasing trade between Namibia and Germany. Tourism, Comrade President, is another area … - Nora Schimming-Chase

This book is dedicated to the women who made me what I am today. My maternal great grand mother, my Herero and Damara grandmothers Metha Ngatjikare and Christofine Gamamus both of whom lived during the German occupation and gave birth to children whose fathers were German, and who were forced by German and South African occupation to bring up these children on their own. And despite these challenges these children made history in their own right.

My wonderful mother, Charlotte Schimming, my role model, who taught her daughters to always recognize their own work never to feel inferior to anybody be they white or male.

She made it always look as if my father was the boss, but even if it came to petty cash, my mother used to hold the purse