Namibia’s new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high unemployment, inequality, and poverty.
She will be dealing with the additional burden of being only Africa’s second-ever directly elected female president and Namibia’s first female head of state.
“If things go well then it will be seen as a good example,” Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC’s Africa Daily podcast. “But if anything then happens, like it can happen in any administration under men, there are also those who would rather say: ‘Look at women!'”
The 72-year-old won November’s election with a 58% share of the vote.
