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Xontae Xhao of Tsodilo has something to teach the French guides

The team from the Botswana National Museum with Professor Bruxelles
The team from the Botswana National Museum with Professor Bruxelles

We are fresh from a weeklong Botswana-France collaboration tour of the Pyrenees Mountains. The Pyrenees is a rich natural and cultural landscape and a 500 kilometre-long mountain range straddling the boundaries of France with Spain.

Our Botswana team of five engaged a lot with the hosts, comprising, as we did, the director who doubles as a museum exhibition designer, a guide based at the Gcwihaba Caves, a geologist, a landscape archaeologist as well as a Motswana palaeontology doctoral student.

The surprise checking of the team by the Botswana Ambassador to France and UNESCO, Mustaq Moorad gave the tour a diplomatic twik and a blessing. We could not ask for more acclaimed but kind hosts than the duo of Toulouse University Professor Laurent Bruxelles and Toulouse Museum director Francis Duranthon.

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

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...

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