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For Botswana, that day happens once every five years. So it was that on October 30, 2024, we, the qualifying citizens of this country, were voters willing to sit in a queue for up to two hours, quietly bearing the late spring heat, while chatting...

In his book, “Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships,” Geoffrey L. Greif writes that the significant difference between male friendships and their female counterparts is that men have shoulder-to-shoulder relationships while women have...

But you still cannot explain what was happening to your intellect then...until you stumble upon them again in late life and in some sense experience your own epiphany. This was exactly the case with me as I was drawn, in the beginning of the year, to...

This typically prompts us to accept, often grudgingly, that our future henceforth will not be based on them being present in our lives. Instead, it will be based on rejection. That is when “dumped” becomes more than a mere adjective in everyday...

A veteran English professor at the University of Michigan, Anne Curzan, is a linguist. Her new book, “Says Who?” argues that our choice of words in the English language is determined by context, and that this context is often cultural or based on...

Here in Botswana, although unbearably hot, summer is the ploughing season; autumn, significantly drier than summer, is a season of feasting on the bounty of the soil; and spring, a prelude to summer, is the season for budding plants. Each of the...

Craftsmanship is: the graceful and methodical movement of hands; the occasional pause needed for hands and the head to work in unison; intense concentration to work out the intended product; and the inspiration and execution needed to generate a...

But, everyone who now talks excitedly about “content” must know that they really draw on the nature of, the reason for, and the appeal of books.In any case, only books contain a contents page and at the beginning for that matter! Inside them,...

But there is music playing in the background. That music is classical music. This is the music of the medieval period, past through the Renaissance era, beyond the common period, the 20th century, and right up to the present postmodern period.It is...

But occasionally, a word or expression will transcend mere fashion and preference and have character, a zeitgeist for the year we are in. Enter the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the world’s most authoritative English language dictionary, and its...

Try as I might, I have never managed to explain his emotional turmoil.But I think I now have a working hypothesis for it. Caution: it is not based on any professional knowledge or expertise. Rather, it is a caricature that arises out of my own...

They then must have concluded that to achieve that goal the city would require many things including multiple traffic lanes and public artworks. So they started getting them. Now Gaborone has several traffic intersections, fewer traffic circles,...

Socrates (470 BC - 399 BC), the founder of Western philosophy, its first martyr, and the first public intellectual, said that philosophy is a task of examining and investigating things, and to be critical about concepts that underlay everything....

Being spring in our country, confident people will start to bare their flesh or at least flash it. Being the last springtime before our country's general elections, politicians will start to ‘speechify’ in earnest.In both instances, their...

Again, to them, it is an area with extremes in both landscape and weather. It is a very high plateau of hamlets, villages, townships and ports of entry, built on land that has an average height of 1,000 meters above sea level.Measuring 2.5 million...