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Miss Namibia under the previous director Connie Maritz was straight cow dung. I hated every pageant staged by Connie and her team since my earliest recollection. And I have been around hey, nothing about the pageant under the previous director reflected the true essence of Namibian society. Year in, year out… I criticised the pageant,...
Every Maria and Dantago has a podcast these days. It is ridiculous, but hey, in 2024, they will accuse me of ‘gatekeeping. Gatekeeping is such a terrible thing in an unregulated industry, where once again, every Magdalena and Tjivetje can just get up and be an artist. This includes the talentless ones, and those who...
Let’s continue our monthly tradition of sharing a personal playlist of strictly Namibian music. As usual, evidently there is a need to add a disclaimer: This list that I share monthly is not a New Era list. It is not sanctioned by New Era or endorsed by the publication in anyway. This list is not...
For years, I have always maintained there is zero political willpower when it comes to the conversation around the lack of Namibian content on Namibian TV and Radio.
On World Music Day (21 June), I would just like to go back to the good old days when Namibian hip-hop was actually a thing. Back to a time when Namibian hip-hop actually filled venues.
It is undeniably preposterous that in this day and age of sober reasoning, we still need to ask the absolutely ridiculous question: “Do we have celebs in Namibia?”.
With this week’s piece, I’d like to highlight and celebrate creative practitioners who have been operating at the highest level for the past 10 years.
LET’S continue what I started about a month ago by sharing a personal playlist of Namibian music. This is something I will do every month.
FOR years, I’ve written about events in Namibia. For years, I made it a point to contextualise what the perfect event should look like.
I’ve always maintained that there are three sides to a story: your truth, their truth and the actual truth.