I see my task as presenting Namibia as a young democratic African country which, under Your Excellency’s able leadership, is bent on promoting the we… - Nora Schimming-Chase

I was born on the 2nd of December 1940 (or so we all agreed) until I was twenty years old when we realized that that was the birth date of my late brother Norman who died before I was born and in whose memory was named Nora.

There is a greater truth than mine, there is a truth of Namibian History… I was there also. This is my story.

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.