My Academic Career at the University of Botswana and Beyond

Abstract

One day, not so many years ago, a colleague retorted to a secretarial staff member who had called me Dr. C: ‘Why do you call Prof. Chebanne, Dr. C?’

To which, with composure, she said, ‘There is no one called Prof. C!’ And that response settled the argument. This is how a certain section of the Faculty staff called me.

I, even myself, accepted it without protest. This, I assumed, was how fondly they preferred to call me. In philosophy, when time flies, it is always relative to our existence or our plans.

Sooner our present becomes our past, and the rest is the history of a man.