I have always thought Baffour to be a bit of a sycophant of the president of Zimbabwe. But then, who am I to tell? Sometimes when I see how Western-funded press-institutes make ridiculous statements about press freedom in Namibia, I think in silence that “Baffour might be right after all”.

However, I must congratulate him for his call in the May issue for readers to write about African heroes. Decolonising the mind will probably be more efficiently achieved by a positive attitude than by negativism. I have lived half of my life in Southern Africa (Swaziland, South Africa, Namibia) and, apart from a few dips, I have never regretted my move from cold (also in a spiritual sense) Europe to the cradle of civilisation.