Three Dikgosi Monument is a historical disgrace

Visiting the Three Dikgosi Monument in Gaborone, which has been positioned as the country’s main Nation Monument, is very disappointing and shameful, especially for students of history of Botswana.

“Historical resistance figures who opposed colonisation and conquest have been forgotten, while “collaborators” have been enshrined as founding figures of the nation,” this statement made by historians Jeff Ramsay and Barry Morton in their paper published in Academia titled The Invention and Perpetuation of Botswana’s National Mythology, 1885-1966, sums up a visit to the monument.