This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

In downtown Vindhoek Namibia at the intersection of Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue,

there is an imposing gold building with an affectionate nickname.

I call it the coffee machine.

They call it this a coffee machine.

In the minute it's like a coffee machine, whatever it is.

It's the big golden coffee machine looking building on the hill.

It stands five stories above the adjacent traffic circle,

and it really does look a lot like a big industrial coffee maker that you'd find in a banquet hall.

It's a huge gold and black cylinder on stilts with an empty space underneath.

Two big glass elevators run up the legs.

This sleek ultra-modern building is a museum.

That's reporter Ryan Lenora Brown.

She's based in South Africa.

It was built to commemorate Namibia's fight for independence from apartheid South Africa, which it achieved in 1990.

And for many of the visitors I spoke with, the museum feels like a huge achievement.

The artifacts, the statues, everything, the effort, like it's a

thumbs up for them. I'm really proud. Like this is one of the places that I can say

I'm proud of in my country.

But for a museum that commemorates throwing off the chains of colonialism

and forging a new era of self-determination,

it has one pretty strange feature. It wasn't designed by a

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