Botswana

INTRO. The year 1927 brought about a new National Monument –– Tsodilo Hills. Tsodilo Hills is located in Botswana, Africa. Tsodilo Hills is an African rock art site, one located near the border of South Africa, “near the borders with Namibia and the Caprivi Strip, west of the Okavango Delta” (Trust for African Rock Art). Located at the site are roughly 4,500 paintings and etchings. African rock art is an understudied, underappreciated form of art and culture that runs deep in the…

currently. The short story, “The Rich People’s School”, introduces us to the concept of marriage and fertility, using a mother, a grandmother, and a young girl, named Sylvia. The mother, being from Botswana, was sent away with an American man for marriage, while her mother and her daughter stayed in Botswana (never mentioning a father). We soon find out that the…

child, a son, as a single parent. Her son provided no joy and comfort to her. After her marriage broke up, she left South Africa on an exist permit and went to Serowe in Botswana and took up teaching post there. She lived here as a stateless person until her tragic death in April, 1986 with Hepatitis infection. In Botswana, she remained in ‘refugee’ status for fifteen years before gaining citizenship. It was a punishment on her involvement with Pan-African politics. Her personal background…

Africa Report: Event 1 stereotype, selection bias, culture, biome, climate. In modern society, (from a western perspective) we see Africa as a place with broken governments, disease and death, poverty and despair and non-educated and illiterate people. The west see Africa as a place of crime a place of danger and Corruption. People are often basing their knowledge of Africa upon racial stereotypes. The media is a dominant force in swaying our perspective and opinion on Africa. Why do we think…

Khoisan languages are facing a decline of speakers and subsequently these figures can further decline for the reason that minority languages usually have a decline in speakers rather than a gain. In Tanzania there are 126 languages so it would take an enormous growth of population in the Khoisan region for the minority language to become a majority language among all the other languages in Tanzania. Minority languages have a small amount of speakers belonging to a minority group. Khoisan is a…

EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING Only a person who has been away from our planet for some time would claim that global warming is not happening. The evidence shows abundantly on all the continents of the world. Several aspects of climate have been affected. For instance, in the temperate zones, the summers are warmer and more humid. Droughts are more frequent, particularly in Africa. Rainfall and snowfall are more intense and, in some cases, quite destructive. Snow (or ice) cover on mountaintops is…

Did you know that a giraffe’s heart is 25 pounds and 2 feet long? A giraffe has a black-blue tongue that is 16-18 inches and it is black-blue so it doesn't get sunburnt. They are pregnant for 15-18 months. Giraffes eat 75 pounds of leaves in a daily basis that is a lot of leaves! A baby giraffe called a calf is 6 feet tall just when it is born! Giraffes only have to sleep 30 minutes in a 24 hour period. The Giraffe is interesting because of when it lives, how it survives, and how it has been…

This research article claims that depression is a leading contributor to disease worldwide and should be considered in HIV prevention. The sample required the subjects to be aged 18 to 49 and living in the five districts in Botswana with the highest prevalence of HIV infection. A survey was used as the data to analyze possible depression. Of the 1178 respondents, 25% of women and 31% of men were considered suffering from depression using a Hopkins Symptom Checklist for Depression…

Jan van Riebeeck bought land from the Khoikhoi in 1671 to start the new colony. I wonder if my family in Botswana would know where to mark their heritage back to. In 1966 Botswana gained its independence fromt eh English Sphere and became the Friendly Resistance helper fro the Popular Communist Resistance in South Africa. The Popular Communist Resistance set up an underground office in Botswana or Bechuanaland as it was called at first. Mimi and Faan were border farmers in Bechuanaland, they…

the application of non-refoulement between South Africa and Botswana could not be explained by the variation in the institutionalization of international norms. Regime stretching is demonstrated through the case study of South Africa and Botswana as host states for Zimbabweans. South Africa demonstrated regime stretching through the temporary suspension of the deportation of refugees who fell outside of the 1951 Convention framework. Botswana did not demonstrate regime stretching; Zimbabwean…