Retracing the aims of Digging Tswana Roots

Next week shall be my last article for Mmegi. Sadly, there was yet much more I could have unearthed for you, but as Fate would have it this newspaper wishes to restructure and I have to move on. For my loyal readers, this is not the end of my work: bigger and better things lie ahead, but only next week will I intimate what form my future work will take. This week the best thing, perhaps, is to revisit the overarching flavour of my work in these past five years.

 Digging Tswana Roots has indeed been about, yes, digging into the primordial roots of the Setswana language and culture. And in the spirit of all good names, headings or titles, the choice of words must express things at several different layers such that the astute reader can delight in deciphering their various meanings – which must all say the same basic thing, but in different ways. And since this is not the time to be coy any longer, I will now obviate the said layers.