• A Leopard's Kopye burial at Mathangwane in northeastern Botswana 

  van Waarden, Catrien; Mosothwane, Morongwa N. (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 ...

• Dietary stable carbon isotope signatures of the Early Iron Age inhabitants of Ngamiland 

  Mosothwane, Morongwa N. (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) 

  Mosothwane, Morongwa N. (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 ...

• Bid to settle Jewish refugees from Nazi-Germany in Botswana, 1938-1939 

  Makgala, C.J. (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 ...

• Makgowa, Mahaletsela, and Maburu: traders and travellers before c.1820 

  Parsons, N. (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 ...

• The Khoisan in Botswana - Can multicultural discourses redeem them? 

  Chebanne, A. (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 ...

• Limitations of British territorial control in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1918–1953 

  Makgala, C.J. (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 ...

• The challenges of financial responsibility in the tribal administration of Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1919-1966 

  Makgala, C.J.; Botlhale, E. (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 ...

• Critical factors in cultural tourism in Botswana 

  Bolaane, M.M.M.; Kanduza, A.M. (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 BaKhurutshe Anglicans of Tonota religious persecution in the Bechuanaland Protectorate 

  Bennett, B.S.; Bolaane, M.M. (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, ...

• Reflections on the University in Africa: the role of the past in education 

  Segobye, A.K. (Routledge (Taylor and Francis) www.routledge.com, 2007)

  The colonial and postcolonial experiences of Africans reflect the myriad changes which African societies have undergone over the last few centuries. These include cultural, political and economic transformations mainly ...

• Of rats, fleas, and peoples: towards a history of bubonic plague in southern Africa, 1890-1950 

  Molefi, R.K.K. (University of Botswana, Research and Development Unit / http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/browse.cfm?colid=12, 2001)

  This paper examines the responses of colonial governments to outbreaks of bubonic plague in the interior, particularly that of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) administration. Bubonic plague first reached Southern ...

• Linchwe 1 and the Kgatla campaign in the South African war, 1899-1902 

  Morton, R.F. (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 ...

• Post-liberation xenophobia in Southern Africa: the case of the influx of undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants into Botswana, c.1995–2004 

  Morapedi, W.G. (Routledge (Taylor and Francis) www.routledge.com, 2007)

  For the last two decades, Botswana has had a reputation as a ‘country of immigration’, based on the large-scale import of skilled expatriates from Africa, Asia, and the West. This policy has been accompanied by a general ...

• History and perceptions of regionalism in Botswana, 1891 – 2005 

  Makgala, C.J. (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 

  Makgala, C.J. (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 University in Botswana and the liberation struggle in southern Africa (1973–1980) 

  Mokopakgosi, B.T. (Routledge (Taylor and Francis)/www.routledge.com, 2008)

  This article documents key aspects of the role played by university students in Botswana in the liberation struggle, from the early years of the University in the mid-1960s to the year of Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. ...

• The impact of Game Reserve policy on the river BaSarwa/Bushmen of Botswana 

  Bolaane, M. (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 ...

• Taxation in the tribal areas of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1899-1957 

  Makgala, C.J. (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

  This essay examines, through taxation, the relationship between British colonial administrators, Tswana Dikgosi (chiefs) and their subjects in the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1899 to 1957. It argues that since ...

• Ngwato atitudes towards Zimbabwean immigrants in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in the 1950s 

  Makgala, Christian John (Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com, 2006)

  This article is a modest sketch of the historical background to the phenomenon of xenophobia, with which policymakers in Botswana are grappling in the early twenty-first century. It is not, however, a historical treatise ...

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