What Was It Like Before Independence?

That  ‘country’, the Protectorate, has  gone, having disappeared from the map of the world and been replaced by  the same place but with a different name, Botswana. Comparing the two is difficult.

There are some similarities, of course, but the differences are enormous.  A capital had recently been established in Gaborone but this was a town of mostly foreign civil servants. Few locals related to it because, never previously having had one, the very motion being unfamiliar and strange.