Seretse Khama in his own words

"It should now be our intention to try to retrieve what we can of our past.  We should write our own history books to prove that we did have a past, and that it was a past that was just as worth writing and learning about as any other. 

We must do this for the simple reason that a nation without a past is a lost nation, and a people without a past is a people without a soul." - University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, May 15, 1970, as quoted in the Botswana Daily News, May 19, 1970.