Browsing Research articles (Dept of History) by Title
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The BaKhurutshe Anglicans of Tonota religious persecution in the Bechuanaland Protectorate
(African Studies Center, Boston University, 2010)The article is about the inter-war history of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, in which it was alleged that Tshekedi Khama, regent of the BaNgwato (1925-1949), was persecuting a small group of people for practicing Anglicanism, ... -
Bid to settle Jewish refugees from Nazi-Germany in Botswana, 1938-1939
(Botswana Society / www.botsoc.org.bw, 2006)This article demonstrates that while Adolf Hitler's Nazis were busy persecuting Jews in Germany there was an attempt made by the colonial authorities in Botswana, South Africa and Britain to settle some Jewish refugees in ... -
The challenges of financial responsibility in the tribal administration of Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1919-1966
(Routledge (Taylor and francis), www.routledge.com, 2008)This account of tribal finances in Bechuanaland Protectorate under British colonial rule argues that while the treasury dispensation made the tribes responsible for their finances, it also brought about a new dynamic and ... -
Community involvement in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management: an assessment from case studies in Southern Africa and elsewhere
(University of Chicago Press, 2008)Community archaeology has conferred an alternative dimension on conventional archaeology and heritage management, empowering previously powerless peoples, particularly the indigenous and local communities that have lost ... -
Comparative aspects of farm labour in twentieth century Botswana
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) www.routledge.com, 2007)This article focuses mainly on the Tuli block and Ghanzi farming areas because they were and still are the most economically viable. The aim of this article is to draw a comparison between the labour situation in Ghanzi ... -
Critical factors in cultural tourism in Botswana
(Botswana Society, http://www.botsoc.org.bw, 2008)This discussion is a critical assessment of the role of cultural factors in promoting tourism in Botswana. From the 1990s, the Botswana Government’s policy on tourism focused on involving local community participation in ... -
The decline in the role of chieftainship in elections
(University of Botswana, Research and Development Unit/http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/browse.cfm?colid=12, 2000)This article focuses on three districts of Botswana, namely Central District, Ngwaketse District and Kgatleng District. It argues that as a result of the role played by the institution of chieftainship in elections, ... -
Dietary stable carbon isotope signatures of the Early Iron Age inhabitants of Ngamiland
(Botswana Society, http://www.botsoc.org.bw, 2011)The wide spread presence of Late Stone Age (LSA) and Early Iron Age (EIA) communities such as at the Tsodilo Hills, Matlapaneng, Serondela, Qogana, and other sites have been documented in Ngamiland, nofthwestetn Botswana ... -
An ethnographic study of initiation schools among the Bakgatla ba ga Kgafela at Mochudi (1874-1988)
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2001)In and around the Makgadikgadi Pans there are several archaeological sites that have been interpreted as places were initiation rites took place in ancient times. But how can one tell they were initiation sites? This paper ... -
History and perceptions of regionalism in Botswana, 1891 – 2005
(Routledge, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713429127, 2009)Although economic, political, ethnic and religious factors have led to regionalisms and other divides, causing civil strife and civil wars in many countries, in Botswana the north-south divide existed for a long time merely ... -
History and perceptions of regionalism in Botswana, 1891-2005
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis group), http://www.routledge.com, 2009)Although economic, political, ethnic and religious factors have led to regionalisms and other divides, causing civil strife and civil wars in many countries, in Botswana the north south divide existed for a long time merely ... -
The Impact of Game Reserve Policy on the River BaSarwa/Bushmen of Botswana
(Blackwell Synergy; The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com, 2004-08)The aim of this paper is to present a background discussion on the impact of game reserve policy on Bugakhwe, " River BaSarwa" (Bushmen/San people) in Eastern Ngamiland. The issues of local community ownership and its ... -
The impact of Game Reserve policy on the river BaSarwa/Bushmen of Botswana
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)The aim of this paper is to present a background discussion on the impact of game reserve policy on Bugakhwe, “River BaSarwa” (Bushmen/San people) in Eastern Ngamiland. The issues of local community ownership and its ... -
The Khoisan in Botswana - Can multicultural discourses redeem them?
(Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)The Khoisan people are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Botswana has the greatest diversity of these autochthonous communities. As ethnic minorities, they are characterized in the main by small ... -
A Leopard's Kopye burial at Mathangwane in northeastern Botswana
(South African Archaeological Society, http://www.archaeologysa.co.za, 2013)We report on a rare northern Leopard's Kopje grave in Botswana of a male from a small settlement, who, nonetheless, was buried with nine pots and many trade beads. The set of whole and decorated pots with traces of the ... -
Limitations of British territorial control in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1918–1953
(Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)This article argues that the Kalahari desert region of the Kwena tribal reserve quietly slipped out of the imperial command from 1930–1950, at a time when British colonial authorities achieved territorial control of the ... -
Linchwe 1 and the Kgatla campaign in the South African war, 1899-1902
(Cambridge University Press http://www.jstor.org./stable/181722, 1985)During the South African War of I899-I902 the Kgatla people and their leader, Linchwe I, became deeply involved in fighting on Britain's side against the Boers, and the history of their campaign helps in many ways to explain ... -
Makgowa, Mahaletsela, and Maburu: traders and travellers before c.1820
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana, http://www.ub.bw, 1997)This article is about the way people of Tswana origin related with non Tswana speaking people and how they referred to them. It talks about how some of the non Tswana speaking people especially the Whites or Makgowa came ... -
Migrant labour and the Peasantry in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1930-1965
(Taylor & Francis, 1999)This article grapples with issues that have largely remained outside the realms of migrant labour studies in colonial Botswana: the positive input of migrant wages to agricultural production and the effects of migrant ... -
Missionary wives, women and education: the development of literacy among the Batswana 1840-1937
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana, 1997)This paper is about the introduction of western education by Missionaries in Africa. These European Missionaries left their homes for religius reasons, to convert the "heathens" to the christian religion. Convertion to ...