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Botswana: Photographs of a Country in Transition; People and Their Places 1965 - 2016

by Sandy Grant , Festus Gontebanye Mogae , Deborah James
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781846220715
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Zeticula
  • Publisher Imprint: Zeticula
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 360
  • Original Price: GBP 40.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 967 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Africa / South / Republic of South Africa

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.

Grant, Sandy: - 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).

James, Deborah: - Deborah James, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is a specialist in the anthropology of South and Southern Africa.

Mogae, Festus Gontebanye: - Festus Gontebanye Mogae served as the third President of the Republic of Botswana from 1998 to 2008.

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