Shashemooke's bumpy road to development

Also waiting for transport to Shashemooke at the same stop, were about four other people whose appetite for booze did not require much perception to discover. Taking copious swigs from Chibuku cartons, they talked incessantly about everything including good parenthood. When it finally took off, there were seven of us uncomfortably perched on the hard beer crates at the back of the van. Nor was there a shortage of topics even on the way as the rather inebriated company of fellow passengers did not disappoint. It was a light-hearted thirty minute trip on a bumpy and noisy eleven kilometre road through vast Mophane woodland.

Located to the east of Francistown, and with a population of about six thousand people, Shashemooke, unlike a typical village, is a mixture of several tribal groupings.