Let love lead
Friday, January 13, 2017
If you are into history ,then A United Kingdom might just be the energiser for your old-school taste buds. This film caused a stir when it first hit the screens two months back in October 2016 at New Capitol cinemas to a selected few that included President Ian Khama.
It caused frenzy with expensive P1,000 single premiere ticket sales that swung the weight to the brim as more enthusiasts began to eagerly queue up for the December premiere with raging anticipation. Finally the show is here, and in this story love breaking all barriers becomes the focal area of attention. Events begin to unfold because of this catalyst Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s at the time when colonisation was still dominant in Africa.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...