Unpacking The Botswana Education Curriculum (I) - A Suggestion To Reform The History Syllabus

I was  in Form 1. We had a visiting student teacher, who was taking us for history class as part of his school required internship – Mr. Mogalakwe. He was a brilliant historian even then. Having already established an interest in history myself, it was one of the few subjects I would actually prepare for in advance, unless it was exams.

At around the same time, I was falling in love with music. I had recently been introduced to Lloyd Banks who had a song out called Karma, which was relatively old at the time; but having grown up unexposed to secular music, I had only come into contact with it at that point. One of my friends had printed the song lyrics on paper for me, and having pre-read for history class, I didn’t feel the need to focus as hard in class.