Why on earth did J.W. Redecker, Helge's great-grandfather, emigrate from Germany in 1867 to this last most inhospitable corner of the African continent that was not yet a colony? What motivated her father, H. Staby, to leave Germany in 1929, hoping to find a better life in the same now post-colonial country, South-West Africa? In "Beyond Fences," her first book, the author, now a US citizen, searches for her identity as a fourth generation descendant of Redecker. This identity was forged in the crucible of not only the religious and political beliefs of the past century that bear many...