Two UB dons launch books

Professor Begele Chilisa's Indegenous Research Methodologies and Barolong Seboni's Sechele I: A Historical Play, were launched by the University of Botswana (UB) in conjunction with Books Botswana last Thursday. Both Chilisa and Seboni are lecturers at UB.

Giving an overview of her book was Chilisa, who is a lecturer in Research Methods and Evaluation for graduate and undergraduate students. Known worldwide for her publications Chilisa said she decided to write the book in order to critique Western research methods that are more often than not used when conducting research in Africa. She said in many instances, the West published false reports about Africa. She quoted one publication that claimed that the reason there was a high prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in Botswana was that Batswana did not care about using condoms and that it was socially acceptable for men to cheat before and after marriage.