The Conversation

Botswana’s new president: who is Duma Boko and what does he stand for?

The electoral defeat delivered to the Botswana Democratic Party led by Mokgweetsi Masisi was met with incredulity in neighbouring states. Not many expected the party that had run the country ...
Forbes

How This Travel Pioneer Plans To Create The Ultimate Botswana Safari

Safari presents a challenge for travel writers. It’s a trip of a lifetime, something we dream of. It’s captivating to do, immersive in the extreme—the unfamiliar scents, the strange bird trillips, the ...
eturbonews

Botswana: A Country That Has Preserved Its Rich Cultural Heritage

Botswana is a country where an array of tribes who each has transmitted from generation to generation, their culture, and traditions. Although their art and crafts, beliefs, ceremonies, legends, and ...
The Big Issue

Environmental defenders, not victims: What we can learn from the San people of Southern Africa

Until recently, Indigenous peoples have often been viewed as the victims of environmental degradation. In reality, they defend some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet. At the recent COP26 ...
The Independent

Kalahari arrests ‘illegal’ and ‘harassment’, claims NGO Survival

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Forbes

The Beginner’s Guide To A Safari In Botswana

As Africa’s most exclusive safari destination, the undisturbed wilderness of Botswana attracts adventure-seeking travelers who are looking for more out of the standard safari experience. Here’s how to ...
The Conversation

Botswana’s governing party wins tight election. But biggest tests are yet to come

The newly elected President of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi. JUSTIN LANE/EPA The Botswana Democratic Party, which has governed the country since independence in 1966, has retained power in one of the ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Botswana president does something African leaders rarely do: quits

Gaborone: He is the English-born son of a king, a fighter pilot, a teetotaling bachelor - and all that made him an unorthodox African president. But Ian Khama stands out most for his final act as ...
Los Angeles Times

This former African president stands out — and not just because he once crashed an air force plane

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — He is the English-born son of a king, a fighter pilot, a teetotaling bachelor — and all that made him an unorthodox African president. But Ian Khama stands ...
WGHP

After 20,000 years, the world’s oldest people face a crisis of culture

Caught between modernity and 20,000 years as hunter-gatherers, the San people sit at a crossroads. An indigenous people in Southern Africa, they are our oldest human ancestors, DNA testing proving the ...
CNN

Can tourism and art save world’s oldest people, the San, in southern Africa?

Caught between modernity and 20,000 years as hunter-gatherers, the San people sit at a crossroads. An indigenous people in southern Africa, they are our oldest human ancestors, DNA testing proving the ...