Chronicles of Fly

There is nothing like a global pandemic to remind you how fucked up your country is. Covid-19 is not only testing the humanity of the world but has exposed the inequality in many African countries, Namibia is no exception. According to the Genie Index figures compiled by the World Bank in 2019, Namibia is the fourth most unequal country in Africa and the world, we would be number 3 if South Africa wasn’t that neighbor that wants to beat you at everything. Southern Africa is the most unequal region in Africa in terms of wealth distribution, an African Development Bank study in 2012 revealed that 7 out of the 10 most unequal African countries were in Southern Africa. Which is kind of silly considering that Southern Africa has two of the top ten diamond producers in the world, and the fourth largest producer of Uranium in the world.  So, it’s no surprise that one of the things that is most highlighted by the outbreak of Covid-19 in Namibia is the social and economic inequali

The last couple of months have dispelled the myth that nothing exciting ever happens in Namibia. One of my followers expressed so eloquently on his Twitter timeline , “ In 2020 we were on the verge of a World War, then on the verge of a Civil War, then we lost Kobe, and now we are in the middle of an apocalypse...it’s only March.” Covid-19 also known as Corona or The RONA reads like the intro to a science fiction end of days movie, ‘strange and incurable virus pops up and cripples half the world’. Covid-19 is no longer something that we’re watching from the outside, but a part of our reality, and if you’re going to survive the scariest infectious disease of this decade thus far, you will need information that is just as good as your hand sanitizer.  There is a lot of misinformation going around about Covid-19, I guess that’s what happens when you get all your ‘NEWS’ from forwarded videos on WhatsApp . Do you really trust Ndapewa your high school classmate to know about Covid-