Overview

Botswana's rapid transition between 1965 and 2016 from one of the poorest countries in the world to one rated as middle income has been extraordinary. Fifty years of change has seen the widespread disappearance of coal-fired locomotives and popularly used passenger trains, and ox drawn wagons. Blacksmiths, paraffin lamps, rondavels and thatched buildings, lime, women carrying buckets of water, metal water tanks have gone. The list goes on: the displacement of the round by the rectangular, migrant labour, hand cranked telephones and party lines, older men in army great coats, school children with bare feet, guttering and down pipes, granaries, the decoration of the lelapa, indigenous foodstuffs, the sub-language fanagalo, the crafts made for domestic needs. Yet more: changes in clothing, housing, property and vehicle ownership, means of entertainment, untarred main roads, do it yourself housing and in many places, general stores. The majority of the photos selected are of people. This is deliberate. It means that this book has no photographs that are routinely included in other books - the country's marvellous wilderness and wildlife, the Okavango and the Kgalagadi, the sand dunes and places of great natural beauty.

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Author:   Sandy Grant ,  Festus Gontebanye Mogae ,  Deborah James
Publisher:   Zeticula Ltd
Imprint:   Humming Earth
ISBN:  

9781846220715

ISBN 10:   1846220718
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   16 September 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements Picturing change and continuity Mochudi Its Outlying Villages: Artesia to Pilane main road 1968; Bokaa; Mabalane; Mabe Pan; Malotwana; Mathubudukwane; Modipane; Morwa; Odi; Pilane; Rasesa; Sikwane. Traditional Towns: Kanye; Maun; Molepolole; Ramotswa; Serowe; Tlokweng. The villages: Bobonong; Dagwi; Kazangula; Lesenepolole; Letlhakane; Letlhakeng; Mabeleapudi; Mabeleapudi and Paje; Malaka 1997; Mahalapye and Manyana; Mmadinare; Morupole; Moshupa; Notwane; Paje; Palapye; Rakops; Shashe; Shakawe; Shoshong; Thabala; Thamaga; Tshane.

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Sandy Grant lives in Botswana with his wife, Elinah, and two sons in Odi, a village midway between Mochudi and Gaborone. He is a Botswana citizen and holder of a Presidential Honour award. Born in the UK, he graduated BA, MA in History from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in the Conservation of the Built Environment from Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Apart from his involvement with heritage and humanitarian programmes, he has been a long standing newspaper columnist for Mmegi; a part time lecturer at the University of Botswana and at Limkokwing (Gaborone), where he pioneered a new course on the history of building in Botswana; a Commissioner of the Independent Elections Commission (1997-2005); past Chairman of the Botswana Society; and an Independent Parliamentary candidate (1984).

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