University of Botswana Research, Innovation and Scholarship Archive: Recent submissions
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The effectiveness of management of lessons learned from Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) projects
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-08)Learning from past projects, be it to make the most of good practice or to avoid repetition of past mistakes, is one of the major success factors for continuous project accomplishment in organisations. Many researchers and ... -
Association between types of sexual partnerships and condom use in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019)The practice of multiple concurrent sexual partners, inconsistent condom use and low levels of male circumcision are key drivers of the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The percentage of people with multiple concurrent ... -
Modelling factors influencing the co-existance of pastoralists and carviwores around Botswana Makgadikgadi / Nxai Pans national park
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019)Pastoralists and carnivores conflict is a major conservation and rural livelihood challenge given the high rate at which carnivores population decline and the high rate at which livestock is being depredated. The study ... -
The appointment of the Chief Justice and the Judge President of the Court of Appeal by the President of the Republic of Botswana: presidentialism or constitutionalism?
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019)The major aim of this research was to examine the process of appointing the Chief Justice and the Judge President of the Court of Appeal in Botswana. This was accomplished by considering whether there is political manipulation ... -
Urban transport and climate change mitigation options to minimize Greenhouse Gas emissions and to promote sustainable use of public transport in Kigali, Rwanda
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2021-08)The study aimed at identifying urban transport and climate change mitigation options to minimize Greenhouse Gas emissions and to promote sustainable use of public transport in Kigali, Rwanda. Extreme climate events such ... -
New media and the mediatisation of religion: an African Perspective
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-13)The book entitled New media and the mediatisation of religion: an African perspective, co-edited by Gabriel Faimau and William O. Lesitaokana explores and examines how new media shapes religious discourses of different ... -
Reading the Book of Esther in the light of Botswana's 21st century challenges
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-14)The Book of Esther presents readers with an intriguing story of two women: Vashti and Esther. It is a story of hope for women who find themselves suffering at the hands of cruel and dangerous patriarchal homes, systems, ... -
One step forward, two steps back: a critical analysis of Anglican and Roman Catholic bilateral relations from a theological perspective
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-14)This paper is a critical examination of Anglican-Roman Catholic bilateral relations from a theological perspective. The main argument of the paper is that while the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches consider themselves ... -
Omphalos, miracles, and Occam's razor
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-14)Philip Gosse’s Omphalos (1857), which attempted to reconcile Genesis with science by proposing that the pre-Adamite stage of the world existed only as a Platonic idea, has usually been criticized as violating Occam’s razor ... -
HIV and AIDS knowledge and attitudes among form three junior secondary school students in Kweneng and Central districts
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-14)This article explores HIV and AIDS knowledge and attitudes of students in their final year of junior secondary school. Though a lot of studies have been carried out about youth and HIV it seems a few have focused on the ... -
Botswana-South Korea relations under President Ian Khama's presidency: 2014:2018
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-14)This paper broadly explores Botswana-South Korea relations during the second term of President Ian Khama’s presidency (2014-2018). Botswana and South Korea established diplomatic relations in March 1968, but the relations ... -
Informed by heterosexual moral norms: raising some moral questions for traditional leaders, lawyers and the general public of Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)This paper argues that using heterosexual norms on homosexual persons amounts to discriminating against this group. Botswana is among the thirty countries in Africa that criminalize homosexuality and same sex sexual acts. ... -
Constructing a theology of disability
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)This paper is an attempt to construct a Theology of Disability. The paper argues that disability has never been accepted by Jewish culture and many African cultures because it is associated with curses from the ancestors. ... -
Many paths to one God: revisiting ecumenism in the era of pluralism in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)In this paper we seek to re-examine ecumenism in the phase of religious pluralism in Botswana. We acknowledge that religious diversity, whether it is within one religion or many, is often characterized by conflict borne ... -
President Festus Mogae, University of Botswana academics and public discourse in Botswana, 1998-2008
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)This piece fills an important gap in the literature of Botswana by providing a survey of issues which were highly topical in the public domain in Botswana at the turn of the twenty first century and the contribution by ... -
The global ethic and African conceptions of social justice, law and order: an appraisal
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)The preoccupation with a more just and peaceful world today is a concern of many legal experts, faith leaders, policy makers and leading thinkers. This paper examines the Global Ethic, as espoused by the Parliament of World ... -
The Bantu ancestors' image of God: a linguistic account
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)In all the lexical reconstructions which have been made to establish Bantu Proto-forms, that is forms which are presumed to have been used as vocabulary by the ancestral Bantu speakers, there is no any common lexical item ... -
Crossing boundaries: Pentecostal Asia - Africa networks and connections in the context of Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)This article examines the extent to which Pentecostalism has become a religion without borders. This is supported by the migratory or transnational nature and practice of the Southern African religions in general. The ... -
The challenges of translation in bridging divisions among cultures
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-04-25)This paper is about the role of translation as a mediating process between texts that are couched in the languages of different cultures in contact. The etymology of the word "contact" goes back to the Latin verb "tango", ... -
Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, (edited by Stephen R Lewis, Jr), Very brave or very foolish?: memoirs of an African democrat
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)Although I am not an easily pleased critic I am a little thrilled by former President Sir Ketumile Masire’s memoirs. The book appears at a time when there is a very lively debate on political and economic issues on the ...