Culture, Creative Industries: The New Gems

Monday, September 17, 2018

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Botswana’s economy has experienced a battering of late due to depressed mineral sales and low farm yields due to drought. Culture and Creative industry (CCI) has emerged with a potential to revive and diversify the country’s ailing economy.

Batswana have very interesting, diverse, vibrant and economically viable culture and history.

Arts and culture events and festivals provide a stimulus to its economy if efforts are made to vigorously package, brand and promote such activities along with the dominant wildlife tourism activities and programmes in an economically viable manner.

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Culture, Creative Industries: The New Gems

Botswana’s economy has experienced a battering of late due to depressed mineral sales and low farm yields due to drought. Culture and Creative industry (CCI) has emerged with a potential to revive and diversify the country’s ailing economy.

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