Abstract

In this essay, Rosa Persendt reflects on Gregor Dobler's photo essay “Presence and Absence: Shops as Traces of Hopes in Apartheid Namibia” which deals with ethnographic photos taken of empty cucu [trading stores] opened in the early 1950s and the hope and fall associated with them. The discussion concentrates on some of the economic developments in colonial and post-colonial Namibia.

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