Do you hear much about Namibia?
Been fascinated by the country because of National Geographic stories when I was a kid. The "skeleton coast" lined with shipwrecks, the "Forbidden Zone" where the diamonds are mined and cars are left to rot rather than be driven out, the Kaiser's involvement, the diamonds dredged out of the ocean and stones scooped out of sand dunes were intriguing.
Some great reading in the Namibian archives for 2002: