University of Botswana Research, Innovation and Scholarship Archive: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Sir Ketumile Masire and some documents on constitution making in Botswana: notes from my Library
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)When the editor of the Botswana Notes and Records (BNR) issued a reminder on a call for papers for the 50th anniversary of the BNR and also dedicated to the life of the late second President of the Republic of Botswana, ... -
Does Ruretse belong to Batlokwa?: what history can tell us
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)First a disclaimer. My wife and I live on and own a plot in an area that has come to be known as Ruretse. The name for this plot and all the others surrounding and including the ‘Khama farm’ are actually registered as ... -
Parallel policy structures in Botswana: from devolution to centralisation under Ian Khama’s administration, 2008-2018
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)Policy development and development planning in Botswana have been executed through a consultative process involving all relevant structures since the country’s independence from British colonial rule in 1966. However, ... -
The journey thus far: chronicling events of the only Medical School in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)The University of Botswana (UB) started the only medical school in the country in 2009 in order to meet the increasing need for Batswana doctors who could deliver excellent health care anywhere in the country. Since then, ... -
Training doctors for Botswana, 1966 to 2017
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)This piece is a straight forward account of how Botswana trained its medical doctors from the country’s independence in 1966 to 2017, the latter constituting roughly the first decade after the University of Botswana (UB) ... -
Botswana’s Muslims: an evaluation of a dynamic religious community
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)The essay offers a contemporary profile of Botswana’s Muslim community. It basically tells the contemporary tale of how Botswana’s Muslims emerged and developed with the focus on the present-day period. In order to do so, ... -
‘The rock star that got stage fright at auction’: the political economy of marketing the historic Lesedi La Rona diamond
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)In 1905 the largest diamond in history measuring 3,106-carat was discovered at Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa, and was presented to King Edward VII of Great Britain for his 66th birthday on 9 November 1907. ... -
Developing Batswana coaches’ competencies through the LifeMatters programme: teaching mental skills through games
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)This study aims to determine if participating in a train-the-trainer version of LifeMatters, a programme combining games and mental skills, influenced the competence, confidence, connections, character, or caring (5 Cs) ... -
Botho as a way of enhancing problem solving in a community project: the case of Moshupa Study Group Project in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)The paper examines how the concept of Botho has enhanced problem-solving in a community project, where it was used to gain entry into the research site. This was undertaken in the village of Moshupa in south-eastern Botswana ... -
Has Donor Funding Been Able to Change the HIV/AIDS Policy Agenda in Botswana?
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)Despite optimism about the end of AIDS, the HIV response requires sustained financing globally into thefuture. Given flat-lining international aid, countries’ willingness and ability to shoulder this responsibility will ... -
‘In an Hour, I could be shot over Angola’: The geopolitical dynamics and experience of the 1988 shooting of President Masire’s jet
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)Just before travelling to the Angolan capital, Luanda, to attend a summit of the Front Line States, President Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, predicted in a joke that ‘In an hour, I could be shot over Angola’. Indeed, Masire’s ...