Southern Africa: SADC Divided Over Zimbabwe [opinion] May 11, 2008
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa--backed by his Botswanan counterpart Ian Khama and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete--are said to be the only vocal leaders within Sadc who have demanded intervention in Zimbabwe. Mwanawasa and Khama are third heads of states while Kikwete is the fourth. (allAfrica.com)
Zimbabwe: Africa divided May 5, 2008
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa - backed by his Botswanan counterpart Ian Khama and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete - are said to be the only vocal leaders within SADC who have demanded intervention in Zimbabwe. Mwanawasa and Khama are third heads of states while Kikwete is the fourth. (iAfrica.com)
From Times Online Mar 21, 2008
Precious Ramotswe, the heroine of the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, the popular series of Botswanan detective novels due is "first and foremost a Christian" says the Bishop of Botswana. The Right Rev Musounda Trevor Selwyn Mamba, who plays a village priest in the television adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith s novels on BBC1 tomorrow [Easter Day] said: It is her belief in God and Christ that sustains her, and which, for the most part, sustains all Africans. (Times Online)
The making of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency Mar 16, 2008
In truth, the Batswana, as Botswanans are known, had never needed one - since independence from Britain in 1966, their country has been a quiet African success story, with a solid democracy, founded on tribal principles, and a stable economy ... Alexander McCall Smith s books about a traditionally built Botswanan woman who takes it upon herself to open a detective agency in the capital, Gaborone, have changed that ... They approached the Botswanan government, saying they wanted to film there not... (Times Online)
Refining Chieftaincy for Progress Jan 10, 2008
Unlike Botswanan elites, which 31 years ago could mount the wisdom, the skills and humility to mix their traditional institutions with their ex-colonial and the global development ideals for prosperity, 50 years after freedom from colonial rule Ghanaian elites are still struggling with their developmental values both traditional and the ex-colonial and the global - that are to be harmonized to fuel the Ghana nation-state as a development project ... " On the flip side, President Nkrumahs... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
