My contribution will be different, more on the academic side with anecdotes here and there, because I was recruited from inside Africa rather than out of the continent. Arriving in Botswana, I had to go through Setswana language training course, including experiencing the live-ins in a little village of Swakopondi, en route to Molepolole. Learnt to live with the locals, ate their food and got used to late night laughs, singing and dancing, it was fun. When all was done, back to Gaborone, at least one can now, ‘Bua Setswana’.
I may not know some of you if you did not go through BOC (during my time) and experienced the ‘live-ins’ programs in various villages around Botswana. However, I am sure, we might have met at various meetings or gatherings, or at the market, or at our house on Podumo Road. Also, I made my entry from Zambia into the CUSO Botswana Group through love, marriage happened then and relocated with my two little ‘kids’ Joyce Chidima Nzakamulio and John James Nzakamulilo. Curios! This is my profound history, conversation at the reunion!!
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June 2019
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