My University of Botswana Days

Abstract

Just after Prof. Fred Morton’s retirement in 2020, I also left the University of Botswana’s History Department
after a long period. I first came here in 1993 and have been here ever since, except for a year teaching at
Chancellor College, Zomba. I have been here for just over half of the lifetime of independent Botswana,
and more than two-thirds of the lifetime of the separate University of Botswana. I have spent my entire
academic career in Africa, and when people here asked me what was done in Western universities, I
sometimes had to say I had no idea.