This article contributes to the growing literature on colonial legacies influencing long‐term
development. It focuses on Botswana, a case where the post‐independence diamond‐led …

The death of Botswana's last founding father, Sir Ketumile Quett Masire, in June 2017,
marked the end of an era. Since the release of the Fourth Edition of Historical Dictionary of …

First published in 1987. The object of this book is to show the nature and the constraints of
the commercialization of agriculture in one of the world's major problem areas, Sub-Saharan …

Botswana is, in terms of population, a small African country, and overall it has played a
modest role in the economic and political history of the region. At the same time, its …

Botswana may seem an unlikely place in which to explore the intersections of gender
politics, democracy and socialism in Africa. 1 The gendered “dual political systems” and …

The paper examines the socio-economic and political issues of sustainable water supply in
Botswana. It pays particular attention to the actual and potential role of economic …

In the early 1980s, a three-year drought gripped southern Africa, aggravating food shortages
that left hundreds of thousands of the region's inhabitants, both in the independent states …

Food security policy, aimed at achieving access to food by the poor in developing countries,
involves short-run and long-run economic considerations, as well as a wide variety of …

Overcoming the Oppressors traces southern Africa's long walk to freedom, the overturning of
colonial rule in the northern territories, and the dissolution of backs-to-the-wall white settler …

Booms and busts in Botswana Page 1 Botswana Notes & Records, Volume 23 Booms And
Busts [n Botswana by DEREK J. HUDSON * Introduction 1.1 This paper examines the way in …