University of Botswana Research, Innovation and Scholarship Archive: Recent submissions
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Geopolitical implications of President Seretse Khama’s 1976 state visit to North Korea
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)Botswana and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) started diplomatic relations in 1974. Botswana severed its relations with North Korea in 2014. The United States (US) got worried when Botswana’s first ... -
Water for urban development or rural livelihoods: is that the question for Botswana’s Notwane river catchment?
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)The point of departure for this paper is the publication by Jeremy Meigh in 1995 entitled ‘The Impact of Small Farm Reservoirs on Urban Water Supplies in Botswana’. Urban water supply dams and small rural farm reservoirs ... -
The comparative dynamics of water sharing of transboundary waterways: lessons from the Nile, Lesotho Highlands Water Project and the Okavango River Basin
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)The current global climate change patterns seem set to usher in progressively drier climates in mostdeveloping countries, especially in Africa. This, coupled with population explosion in developing countries, is bound to ... -
The dynamics of cattle farming, bovine disease and state intervention in North West District of Botswana, 1966-2000
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)At independence in 1966, livestock formed the basis of Botswana’s rural economy with many Batswana dependent on it for their subsistence. Thus, on the eve of their departure, the British colonial authorities had drawn up ... -
Social cleavages and party alignment in Botswana: dominant party system debate revisited
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)This article analyzes the dominant party system in Botswana through a social structural paradigm. Debates surrounding the dominant party system of Botswana typically focus on the relative strength of opposition parties ... -
Making pots in Manaledi: people, material and history
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)The Manaledi clay mine is composed of two shallow, linear quarries, one producing a red clay and the other a white clay; these are mixed together in proportion of two parts red to one part white to compose a strong potting ... -
The Sir Ketumile Masire factor in the making of Botswana as an ‘African miracle’
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)Economic growth and development are associated with or caused by many variables one of which is leadership. The functional approach of leadership holds that leadership is not about an individual and his/her attributes. ... -
Intercalation in the traditional Setswana calendar
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)Precolonial Southern African farming societies used lunisolar calendars. The details have largely been lost since these calendars were abandoned in favour of the Gregorian calendar. This article seeks to investigate possible ... -
Introduction to a special issue on Botswana Notes and Records’ Golden Jubilee volume in honour of Sir Ketumile Masire
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2018-12-03)We are quite pleased and proud to be able to produce the momentous volume 50 of the Botswana Notes and Records (BNR) which is the country’s longest surviving indigenous journal. As the title of this introductory piece ... -
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 ...