University of Botswana Research, Innovation and Scholarship Archive: Recent submissions
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Water balance and variations of nutrients and major solutes along a river transect through the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-07-05)Wetland goods and services provide a means of survival for many riparian rural communities in developing countries, particularly in the Sub-Saharan Africa. To sustain the provision of goods and services for human use, ... -
Heat wave characteristics in the context of climate change over the past 50 years in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-07-05)Heat waves have impacts on human health, society and the economy. This study seeks to improve the understanding of their characteristics in Botswana. For their identification, a heat wave is defined as a period when daily ... -
Leading UB’s Faculty of Humanities as Dean and the Botswana Society as Chairman
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-01-18)Whereas the title of this piece is confined to the role I played as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Botswana (UB) and chairmanship of The Botswana Society, I also touch on roles I played in other ... -
Tourism in Botswana in the last 50 Years: a review
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017-07-05)Using the concepts of ecotourism and sustainable tourism, this paper reviews tourism development in Botswana since the country’s independence in 1966. Findings from this review indicate that the tourism industry has ... -
Evoking memory: a curatorial perspective on Botswana’s Presidential Heritage
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)The aim of this paper is to start a dialogue on how the heritage of Botswana’s heads of state can be preserved after their term in office. It was inspired by the private cataloguing of the second president of Botswana, ... -
Pushing agricultural land out of the village: the land use change in South-eastern Botswana’s Otse, 1986-2002
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)This study contributes to the land use planning and policy in the tribal land areas of Botswana. It focuses on land use change in Otse, south-eastern Botswana. The traditional land tenure system, which is found in peri-urban ... -
The HIV and AIDS collective memory: anecdotal notes on texts of trauma, care-giving and positive living
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)The story of Botswana’s 50 years of Independence cannot be told without remembering the story of HIV and AIDS. Remembering, yes, but sometimes we wish to forget this painful story to make our lives ‘normal’ again –so we ... -
The future of History
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)Thanks for the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs’ (DVCAA) introduction and thanks to you all for coming. I do not get many opportunities to speak to such an audience; I am more accustomed to having captive students ... -
Professor Felix Mnthali: a life well lived
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)It is not often that a rural poor boy’s fate destines him for the greatest academic opportunities that turn him into a professorial scholar of renown. Nowadays, only a few black people can tell you about their outstanding ... -
Interview with Professor Thomas Tlou
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)This interview of Professor Thomas Tlou was first featured in the History Department’s Handbook at the University of Botswana and was done by Dr Alinah Kelo Segobye in 1998. Professor Thomas Tlou had recently retired as ... -
The History and Archaeology student research project tradition at the University of Botswana: 1990s and after
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)In the 1990s, the student project continued to be the jewel in the crown of the History programme at the University of Botswana (UB). With the creation of the Archaeology Unit, archaeological subjects joined historical ... -
The Origin and Early Years of the History Undergraduate Major Research Essay at the University College of Botswana (Later University of Botswana)
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)When I joined the Department of History in February 1976, one of my first experiences was to attend a seminar led by Professor Thomas Tlou discussing the last-but-final drafts of fourth-year student essays on various topics ... -
Will the dreaded ‘Yellow Monster’ stop roaring again?: an appraisal of Botswana’s 2015 Land Policy
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)This paper assesses Botswana land policy of 2015 from a historical perspective. In July 2015 the parliament of Botswana, after a lengthy debate, approved a new land policy for the country. It had first been brought to the ... -
Towards sustainability in the Theatre: a look at the Company@Maitisong in Gaborone
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)In 2012 Gao Lemmenyane revived The Company@Maitisong (The Company), a theatre company previously formed in 2002 by a group of Drama students at Maru-a-Pula Secondary School, a private school in Gaborone. A number of the ... -
Performance and the economies of cultural heritage festivals in Botswana: cashing in or selling out?
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)Cultural heritage performances such as the Kuru Dance Festival of the Basarwa (Bushmen/San) and the Sedibelo Festival of the Bakgatla in Botswana trade on indigenous performance traditions by translating rituals, culture ... -
‘Our past, our present, and, most importantly of all, our future’: the role of Potters in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)This study integrates various multi-disciplinary approaches on ceramics that provide coherent answers to the past, present and possibly the future of the subject. Special focus is on the four main stages of pottery production ... -
‘Hare and his wife’: making the case for the Trickster’s androgyny
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)This paper goes beyond an oral-aural appreciation of Ikalanga trickster tales to explore the tacit manner in which patriarchy views shulo (hare) the Ikalanga trickster as male. We explain the concept of androgyny to ... -
The state of coverage of development issues on National Television in Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)Since Botswana’s Independence in 1966 the mass media landscape in the country has experienced significant growth demonstrated by increasing number of print media publications as well as emergence of commercial radio services, ... -
‘ALDEP re-designated as ISPAAD’: an appraisal of continued stagnation of crop production in post-independence Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)This paper studies two agrarian schemes in Botswana from Independence in 1966 to the present, namely the Arable Lands Development Programme (ALDEP) which was introduced in 1979 and Integrated Support Programme for Arable ... -
Modernisation of arable agriculture in Chobe district: a search for food self-sufficiency through ALDEP, 1980s and 1990s
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)Food insecurity continues to be a major challenge to developing nations, including Botswana. While there is recognition that agriculture is still the primary source of employment and food supply in most sub-Saharan economies, ...