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The BaKhurutshe Anglicans of Tonota religious persecution in the Bechuanaland Protectorate
(African Studies Center, Boston University, 2010)
The article is about the inter-war history of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, in which it was alleged that Tshekedi Khama, regent of the BaNgwato (1925-1949), was persecuting a small group of people for practicing Anglicanism, ...
A study of students' metalinguistic competence and its probable effect in the Cambridge School Certificate Final Examinations
(Marang: Journal of Language and Literature, http://www.ajol.info/index.php/marang, 2010)
The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which students' understanding of key words in examination questions might influence their performance as illustrated by the number of subjects in which they obtain ...
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 ...
Promoting multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue through instituitions and initiatives of civil society organizations in Botswana
(Routledge (Taylor and francis), www.routledge.com, 2010)
Botswana is a multilingual and a multi-ethnic nation that has had a thriving multi-party democracy, peace, and stability since independence, in 1966. Despite the superficial impression that a casual observer may have of a ...
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 ...
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 ...
A comparison of the information seeking pattern of distance learners in Botswana: a case study of four tertiary institutions
(Routledge (Taylor & Francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)
The study investigated the information seeking behaviour of two
categories of distance learners in Botswana, comprising the cross border
students and those that registered with the University
of Botswana. The return of ...
Information seeking behavior of the off-campus students at the University of Botswana: a case of two satellite centers
(Routledge (Taylor and francis)/www.routledge.com, 2010)
The focus of this study is on the information-seeking
behavior of the off-campus students in 2 of the 7 satellite centers
of the Centre for Continuing Education, the outreach arm of the
University of Botswana. Although ...
Post Africa(n) feminism?
(Routledge (Taylor and francis), www.routledge.com, 2010)
The growing body of literature authored by women in Africa and the African Diaspora over the past four decades has been accompanied by
vigorous debates out of which has evolved a body of theories pertaining
to African ...
Understanding the rural-urban dichotomy in Mositi Torontle's the victims and Unity Dow's far and beyon'
(Indiana University Press, www.iupress.indiana.edu, 2010)
This paper examines how place is represented in two Botswana novels, Far
and Beyon’ by Unity Dow and The Victims by Mositi Torontle. Conventional
notions of rural as the “authentic” experience that is threatened by ...