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Intersuffixing in Setswana: the case of the perfective -ile, the applicative -ela, and the causative -isa
(University of Botswana, Office of Research and Development, http://www.ub.bw, 1996)Our motivation and inspiration to undertake this aspect of the phonology of Setswana is derived from research in Setswana phonology by Creissels (Notes, 1991-1992) and from the Bantu languages phonology by Bastin (1983). ... -
Investigating language vitality in some parts of North Eastern Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017)The main objective of this article is to investigate the level of language vitality in Botswana on the basis of patterns of language use, transgenerational language transmission, language attitudes and ethno-cultural ... -
IT diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa: implications for developing and managing digital libraries
(Emerald Publishing Group Ltd; www.emeraldinsight.com/nlw.htm, 2004-07)This paper is a spin off of a keynote address that was delivered by the author at the IFLA-Africa section workshop on 'developing and managing digital libraries'that was held in Gaborone Botswana from 23-27 February 2004. ... -
Jerusalem and antioch: inter-state, intra-church politics in the Family of God Church in Botswana
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana, 2008)Most of the literature on religion and politics in Africa celebrates the role that churches have played in fighting the oppressive yoke of colonialism, in fighting the ills of ethnicity and tribalism and in the process of ... -
The Khoisan in Botswana - Can multicultural discourses redeem them?
(Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)The Khoisan people are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Botswana has the greatest diversity of these autochthonous communities. As ethnic minorities, they are characterized in the main by small ... -
Language maintenance or shift? attitudes of Bakalanga youth towards their mother tongue
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis)/www.routledge.com, 2009)This article reports the findings of a study whose objective was to investigate whether there was a likelihood of a language shift (or loss) from Ikalanga (a minority language spoken in Botswana) to either Setswana or ... -
The languages of Rivers State of Nigeria: An overview
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-11-06)This paper provides an updated overview of the languages of Rivers State of Nigeria in respect of the number, linguistic classification and features of the languages, as well as the distribution of the languages across the ... -
Learner reading problems: a case of Khoe learners at Junior Secondary School
(University of Botswana, Department of English, http://www.ub.bw, 2010)This article is part of a larger tracer study that investigated Khoe learners' reading ability of English at junior secondary school in Botswana. The research was carried out at Motshegaletau Primary School and Mothamo ... -
A Leopard's Kopye burial at Mathangwane in northeastern Botswana
(South African Archaeological Society, http://www.archaeologysa.co.za, 2013)We report on a rare northern Leopard's Kopje grave in Botswana of a male from a small settlement, who, nonetheless, was buried with nine pots and many trade beads. The set of whole and decorated pots with traces of the ... -
Leveraging public libraries and information and communication technologies (ICTs) to deliver information services for development in Botswana: towards the information society
(2013-05-14)This paper outlines the initiatives the Government of Botswana has put in place with the aim to provide information access even to the most undeserved. The premise of the paper though, will be that in as much as there are ... -
Libraries as learning organisations: implications for knowledge management
(Emerald, 2008)The concept of a learning organisation is relevant to all twenty-first century organisations because of increasing complexity, uncertainty and change (Malhotra, 1996). Libraries can benefit significantly as ... -
Library and information needs of continuing education students at the University of Botswana: a case of two satellite centres
(2013-08-09)The general objective of this study is to investigate the library and information needs of the continuing education students of the University of Botswana in some satellite campuses specifically in Selebi Phikwe and ... -
Library's response to the challenge of the (neworked) world of lifelong learning
(2013-05-14)With the constantly unfolding changes in the educational horizon, the survival and relevance of the library as a repository of knowledge and provider of information services can only be assured in being proactive, swift ... -
Limitations of British territorial control in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1918–1953
(Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)This article argues that the Kalahari desert region of the Kwena tribal reserve quietly slipped out of the imperial command from 1930–1950, at a time when British colonial authorities achieved territorial control of the ... -
Linchwe 1 and the Kgatla campaign in the South African war, 1899-1902
(Cambridge University Press http://www.jstor.org./stable/181722, 1985)During the South African War of I899-I902 the Kgatla people and their leader, Linchwe I, became deeply involved in fighting on Britain's side against the Boers, and the history of their campaign helps in many ways to explain ... -
Literacy, ethnolinguistic diversity and transitional bilingual education in Malawi
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandif.co.uk/journals, 2006)This paper examines recent attempts by the Malawi government to introduce local languages into the primary school system and other secondary domains of national life, breaking more than 30 years of Chichewa/English monopoly. ... -
Livingstone’s ideas of Christianity, commerce and civilization
(University of Botswana, National Institute of Development and Cultural Reseach, http://www.thuto.org/pula/html/pula-home-page.htm, 1998)David Livingstone is often misunderstood as being a conscious promoter of European colonization of Africa. On the contrary, he believed that the key to Africa's future was the stimulation of indigenous development and good ... -
Makgowa, Mahaletsela, and Maburu: traders and travellers before c.1820
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana, http://www.ub.bw, 1997)This article is about the way people of Tswana origin related with non Tswana speaking people and how they referred to them. It talks about how some of the non Tswana speaking people especially the Whites or Makgowa came ... -
Making money or spreading the gospel? An analysis of the mission of gospel musicians in contemporary Zimbabwe
(Unisa Press, http://www.unisa.ac.za & Routledge, http://www.informaworld.com, 2007)Statistics show that at present there are more gospel musicians in Zimbabwe than secular musicians. Consequently this paradigm shift has not gone unquestioned. People have asked what the mission of these gospel musicians ... -
Management of "killer" indomie scare and impact on consumer confidence: a case study
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis), http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, 2008)In May 2004, an allegation that indomie noodles were causing illness and death started making the rounds and driving fear into the minds of loyal consumers in Nigeria. After thorough investigations, NAFDAC gave De-United ...