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The poet reckons with its poetry, but leboko is poetry and more. The poet wrestles with its verse, rhythm, and line endings, but then without these, it couldn’t honestly be poetry as it is universally understood. Yet, the poet also brings to it a...

30 September is Independence Day here, and 1 October is the public holiday that always follows. Paradoxically, this year, Botswana will be celebrating its diamond jubilee at a time when our diamonds, the mainstay of our country’s economy for too...

Because of this link between the place and its appeal, a close observer can’t help but discern a capital that is obviously teeming with the personal stories of those drawn to it. These would be the stories of their success or failure or the...

In the innermost sanctum of my heart, there lies only one thing I absolutely care about when writing. It is one sentence leading to another sentence. I am unable to think of my writing except as a series of sentences connected to each other to convey...

The opposition quickly attacked the move as a 'dangerous gimmick' and a 'smokescreen.' One pundit asked, 'Will the time soon come when ministers are hired by head-hunters?' And a young MP declared that 'France cannot be managed like a bolt...