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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 ...
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 ...
One body playing many parts-Ie Betjouana, el Negro, and il Bosquimano
(University of Botswana, Research and Development Unit/http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/browse.cfm?colid=12, 2002)
This article talks about how the body of El Negro was stolen from southern Africa and how it was kept as an exhibit in a museum in Spain. Two French taxidermists stole the body later known as El Negro from a grave beyond ...
Literacy, ethnolinguistic diversity and transitional bilingual education in Malawi
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandif.co.uk/journals, 2006)
This paper examines recent attempts by the Malawi government to introduce local
languages into the primary school system and other secondary domains of national life, breaking more than 30 years of Chichewa/English monopoly. ...
Enhancing access through electronic resources: the University of Botswana Library experience
(Emerald, 2000)
Libraries are changing their modes of delivery at a very fast rate. This article describes how the University of Botswana library has advantage of the new technologies to enhance its service to its patrons. The University ...
The Shona Bible and the politics of bible translation
(Edinburgh University Press, http://www.euppublishing.com/, 2009)
The article
discusses the politics of bible translation focusing on the Shona Bible. Specifically it looks at the translation of the word 'banquetings' into 'mabira' in the Union Shona Bible, the first complete translation ...
The state, crop production and differentiation in Botswana, 1947–1966
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com, 2006)
This article analyses the colonial government’s intervention in crop production in Botswana through the ‘progressive farmer’ scheme, from 1946 to independence in 1966. Crop production was not a highly remunerative venture ...
Bandwidth bottlenecks at the University of Botswana: complications for library, campus, and national development
(Emerald, 2005)
Purpose – To examine the technical reasons for excessively slow internet speeds at the University of
Botswana, to discover the present state of development efforts addressing such examples of the
qualitative digital ...
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 ...
Patterns of language use and language preference of some children and their parents in Botswana
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) www.routledge.com, 2002)
This paper examines the patterns of language use and language preference of some
children aged 6–15 and their parents at the University of Botswana. The results indicate
that the majority of the children speak Setswana ...