Botswana Museums and Monuments @50 - A rejoinder to Sandy Grant (Part 2)

He reminded me of the songs they sing at weddings when they are drunk with jealousy: dikuku di monate, lenyalo le boima rona re a tsamaya le tla sala le di bona or perhaps most fitting “O thetha ka di suit kgomo di seyo mo sakeng”.

The Museums Day celebrations were two days of bliss. The Thursday panel discussion, partly sponsored by the Botswana Tourism Organisation and graced by the US Embassy Public Officer, Ineke Stoneham, comprised highly respected facilitators. Some like Drs Keletso Setlhabi and Boga Manatsha were from the history department of the University of Botswana challenging museums on relevance and transformation.