Lonely Planet dubs Namibia as “Africa for Beginners,” and adds that “it is a wonderful place to start.” For me, Namibia is indeed bursting with an aura of “newfangledness.” I knew almost nothing about it before, except that it was formerly called Southwest Africa (west of the more popular South Africa), that it was once a German colony, and that it was the country where celebrity and UN refugee ambassador Angelina Jolie chose to give birth to her daughter Shiloh in 2006. Tha