BRITISH AUTHOR SHARES BECHUANALAND COLONIAL MEMORIES

The National Museum Little Theatre will host British author and former colonial resident of Gaborone, Carolyn Slaughter on February 20. Slaugher will give a public talk entitled "Personal Memories and Sociological Perspectives on the last years of the Bechuanaland Protectorate".

 

The arrival, this week, of the famed English writer adds to the growing monumental attention that the historical Bonnington Farm continues to receive.  It has been a belated but welcome upsurge coming decades after its neighbouring Broadhurst Farm established its name as a Gaborone residential suburb and industrial area. Not only has the electoral commission just named a constituency after Bonnington, but for a while now a junior school, a shopping mall and a national monument have been toiling to affirm the significance of this name.

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