Seitshiro Mosweu's longest ever recorded Setswana poem

The poem, which is published in Isaac Schapera's book, Praise Poems of Tswana Chiefs, has more than 200 verses. It was recorded in Setswana for the first time by Tomeletso Kgosi in 1940 when Tshekedi was at the height of his career as Bangwato regent. 

Seitshiro Mosweu is the brother of Oitsile Mosweu, a trusted lieutenant of Tshekedi Khama who was a gallant man of war having 'fought' in the First World War. The poem is rich in parts of speech such as similes, personification and metaphors, and there is no doubt that Mosweu, was an orator who had photographic memory.