Namibia is over twice the size of Germany and the driest country in sub - Saharan Africa . ( CNN ) -- Colonized by Germany and later annexed by apartheid - era South Africa . Independence came in 1990 after 20 years of war . Stark landscapes of landscape and deserts matched by challenges to the economy and lives of Namibians .
Namibia is over twice the size of Germany and the driest country in sub - Saharan Africa . Colonized by Germany and later annexed by apartheid - era South Africa . Independence came in 1990 after 20 years of war . Stark landscapes of landscape and deserts matched by challenges to the economy and lives of Namibians .