Blueprints on a napkin: Remembering the architect of Namibia’s governance

Stanley N. Katzao

Twenty years ago, against the neon-lit canopy of Shanghai, I found myself sitting across from a political dreamer. The year was 2006.

We were perched on the 87th floor of the Jin Mao Tower, inside the quiet sanctuary of the Grand Hyatt Shanghai. Outside the floor-to-ceiling glass, a dense evening mist hung over the city, routinely sliced open by the laser-sharp beams of neon billboards and towering construction cranes. Below us, the bustling tributaries of the Yangtze River wound like ink strokes through a metropolis that was aggressively reshaping its own future.