Chairperson of the National Arts Council of Namibia, a broadcast journalist on NBC’s ‘Current Affairs’, a poet, writer and a self-described “local man with a global attitude”, Patrick Sam is an artist in office when not nailing punchlines as Nines in Tanya Terblanche’s adaptation of ‘District Six’. Having spent the year navigating the academic, media and arts worlds with incisive commentary and sharp wit, Sam is ready to build the dream in 2018.
Liberating. People say you must live and learn. This year, I decided to learn and live.
A constant vibration of love and actions that actualise the vision. The vision will be motivated, managed and built.
That easy does it.
‘Breathe In and Breathe Out’.
Eggs Baby Blue.
Trezza (Miss Cooper).
Marriage is boring.
The demons.
Rent, braai meat and plants.
“So are you still coming?”
How everybody believes that there is universe while there is actually a multiverse.
Living in a white neighbourhood. Having grown up in Katutura and Khomasdal, living uptown feels imprisoning and we are made to aspire for spaces that promote a lack of freedom.
The amount of selfies people take always seems to blow my mind.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un and how they think nuclear weapons are Christmas toys.
Swapo Congress and witnessing how politically mature our country is becoming.
The slave trade in Libya and how people are not being held accountable.
On my aunt’s plot outside of Okombahe.
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