What Was It Like Before Independence?
Monday, August 22, 2016
That ‘country’, the Protectorate, has gone, having disappeared from the map of the world and been replaced by the same place but with a different name, Botswana.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.
The chieftainship spats between Seretse and Khama’s uncles have purely degenerated into a permanent elephant in the room and it does not seem anyone cares to ensure this hurdle is dealt with promptly for the attainment of peace for GammaNgwato’s bogosi.Just as the proverbial, when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers aptly suggests, and so is the state of the institution of bogosi in GammaNgwato.Such is the case because the...