Borotsi without Barotsi

FRANCISTOWN: When I made a trip to Borotsi Ward in Tonota, I imagined an overly humanistic community populated by pitch-black people who pronounced the letter 'r' as though it were the letter 'l'. Of course, I was disappointed.

My disappointment did not emanate from the absence of people whose skin pigmentation is as Chinua Achebe's two midnights put together. Those are in abundance, though many of them do not have  a drop of Lozi (Barotsi) blood in them. I was disappointed because all the people I spoke to spoke perfect Setswana with no Barotsi accent at all. How can you have Borotsi without Barotsi? I had gone there to look for a lost tribe of Barotsi in Borotsi.