Gaborone�s roundabout art

But I arrive at this rather specialist angle on heritage as a result of the Weekend Post’s article (July 8) on the arty creations that now adorn the Gaborone roundabouts. It must have been obvious to everyone that they had been placed there as part of a general tarting up programme for the 50th anniversary. What I had not known was that these figures had all been made by self-made artists in the prisons, not by the more accredited and recognised artists at Thapong! And well done them. But then I had also not known that these various creations had attracted much critical comment, presumably on Facebook or Twitter.

But then I am yet to see reviews of the film, The United Kingdom or of Donald Molosi’s Blue Black and White, whether critical or approving. Yes, there has been a great deal of pre-publicity about both but, that apart, I have gathered only of the Molosi creation that there has been a degree of approval that this time around a local was in the driving seat. As for the film, The United Kingdom, it has continued to puzzle me that friends abroad have repeadtly asked us if we have seen it?