Ian Khama is president, king and heir to the great house of Khama, and as such, both a modern leader of a country as well as a traditional leader of one of the biggest ethnic communities, not tribes, of his country.
Brown is a Scotsman who, according to British tradition, does not come from the inner circles of power as he is not even English, but he is largely a self made man. Ian Khama, on the other hand, was predestined, and almost by fate, to the leadership of his country.
Khama grew up in the State House. At 12, Brown was selling newspapers in the street while Khama was at that age rubbing shoulders with the high and mighty, the cream of royalty and of the world's statesmen on the lawns of the State House. At 16, Gordon Brown was at university. Even at that early age he had chosen the side in which he was going to make his political contributions to society. Even as a freshman he took to editing a student publication, training his mental faculties and again making his voice heard while Khama was looking at the machinery of state, which it was his fate to inherit, not from below but from a bird's eye view. On the ground he was trying his hands on the controls, playing with scramblers at the police college or army he was destined to command.
Now, both Ian Khama and Gordon Brown are presiding over the affairs of their nations, not because of any popular vote to themselves individually, but through a loophole and constitutional tampering, political maneuvering and other types of power playing schemes that make an aberration of democracy look like the most normal thing.
