Go ahead and write it!

Friday, July 16, 2021

There was a time in the 1990s when a former history teacher, a reporter then of this newspaper, used to write an occasional open letter to the late Sir Seretse Khama, the country’s first president. Were the president still be alive, he would be 100 years this month.

The open letters were part reminiscent and part update on the country’s trajectory, and yet another part, a plea for inspiration as the country was reckoning with the end of a long stretch of economic growth.

Because he is a historian, most likely, he saw his open letters and others he wrote, as a representation of the past and present, as well as his record for posterity.

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