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Historical Dictionary of Botswana

Fifth Edition

Barry Morton and Jeff Ramsay

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 Botswana in 2008, Botswana has gone through its most turbulent and divided decade to date. Throughout September 2016, when Botswana celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence, all the successes of the Seretse and Masire era were sources of massive national pride. Botswana had expanded provisions of electricity, water, education, and health services to almost all of its people and become a model nation that owned its natural resources and plowed the profits back into the nation’s development. Despite these successes, Botswana has a high unemployment rate (about 20 percent) and a much larger cohort of the underemployed.

This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of Botswana contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities and aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Botswana.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 506 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-5381-1132-1 • Hardback • June 2018 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-1-5381-1133-8 • eBook • June 2018 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

Series: Historical Dictionaries of Africa

Subjects: History / Africa / General, Reference / Dictionaries

Historical Dictionary of Botswana

Fifth Edition

Hardback

eBook

Summary

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 Botswana in 2008, Botswana has gone through its most turbulent and divided decade to date. Throughout September 2016, when Botswana celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence, all the successes of the Seretse and Masire era were sources of massive national pride. Botswana had expanded provisions of electricity, water, education, and health services to almost all of its people and become a model nation that owned its natural resources and plowed the profits back into the nation’s development. Despite these successes, Botswana has a high unemployment rate (about 20 percent) and a much larger cohort of the underemployed.

This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of Botswana contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities and aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Botswana.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 506 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-5381-1132-1 • Hardback • June 2018 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-1-5381-1133-8 • eBook • June 2018 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

Series: Historical Dictionaries of Africa

Subjects: History / Africa / General, Reference / Dictionaries

Author

Barry Morton is a Research Fellow at University of South Africa. He is currently employed by both the Sir Ketumile Masire Foundation to produce a memoir of the late President, as well as by the Zimbabwean ZCC to write a biography of the prophet Samuel Mutendi.

Jeff Ramsay is currently Deputy Permanent Secretary for Media in the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, and was formerly Private Secretary and Press Secretary for President Festus Mogae.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Reader’s Note
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendices
ANational Elections
BDemographic Trends Based on National Census Data
CBotswana’s Indigenous Languages
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author

Reviews

The "Historical Dictionary" series is a valuable reference source for college and university libraries without international research collections, particularly for Africa, for which information is not often easily accessed. . . . This is the fifth edition of the dictionary, the last published in 2008. The authors are recognized historians of Botswana, and both were involved in earlier versions. This edition includes numerous new entries, and most previous entries were updated reflecting important recent scholarship, particularly in the area of prehistory. Cross-referencing increased, which is important because of issues of language diversity. The most valuable addition was a significantly expanded bibliography. Recommended.
— Choice Reviews

Known for their bibliographies sections in this series, this book is no exception with both print and electronic resources in both general and very specialized subject areas (such as arts and crafts, literature and folklore, sciences, women and gender, and economics to name a few). An excellent resource on one of the many modern-day countries in Africa.
— American Reference Books Annual

Historical Dictionary of Botswana

Fifth Edition

Barry Morton and Jeff Ramsay

Historical Dictionary of Botswana

Fifth Edition

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