On the morning of Saturday, 3 November, 2018, we held the book launch for Oiva Angula's SWAPO Captive at a Cuban-owned restaurant in Eros, a leafy suburb in the capital city of Windhoek. The previous two weeks had been a flurry of activity; organising, planning, calling and incessant to and fro mailing. Invitations to the launch were sent out via e-mail, posted on Facebook and Twitter. The posters were printed, the venue secured, the details fussed over and obsessed about until late at night. Determining what time of day the launch would take place was extremely important; Windhoek gets uncomfortably hot very quickly early in the morning during the summer months with a heavy heat after that lasts long into the night. During the week before the launch, readers would come into our little bookshop, buy Oiva Angula's book and be simultaneously invited to attend the launch. Some honestly admitted that they were too scared to attend. Others shook their heads in silence and dec