A final farewell to all my loyal readers

After 281 articles under Digging Tswana Roots, this is unfortunately my very last article for this column. There will never be another Digging Tswana Roots. Now, inasmuch as there will be plenty of sad people – many of who took time to express their admiration for what I have taught them – there will be others who will breathe a huge sigh of relief.

Such is life. Not that I have ever got any negative or incredulous or challenging comments in the email address I judiciously appended every week. All I ever got was praise, pleas for further explanation on specific topics, and requests to purchase any books I have written. People, I suppose, really can sense Truth from go goga letlhaku (yarn-spinning)…it’s only that some can’t face it.

Regarding my books, I long allowed them to quickly go out-of-print because they kept getting overtaken by events as my discoveries ran deeper and deeper. In the process I had to dodge orders from established retailers like Exclusive Books and great libraries like the US Library of Congress – establishments any author would ‘kill’ to have their books displayed in. And I could dodge only because I fully self-publish and control my own work; I am able to write, design and format a complete, illustrated and indexed book. (Note: this was not because I had no offers from publishers; for better or worse I actually turned down overtures from at least two established publishers.) I instead decided that I will only write again once my knowledge-gathering reaches a plateau of sorts…a stage where I had now satisfied myself of all the major questions that were still swirling in my head. But never in my wildest dreams would I have believed that I could unearth so much so quickly…questions that have flummoxed researchers for centuries, even millennia.

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