Jacob Knight, Shoshong: A Short History.

Abstract

It is amazing. I have long been advocating the need for this sort of book about all the major settlements in Botswana, hoping that one day someone would pull it off, wanting to have a fi rst shot at it myself but never quite getting around to it. But now it has been done and this new book deserves the loudest of all trumpet calls of welcome. But how ironical it is that this book is on Shoshong. This is a place of immense historical significance but one which has found no favour with guide book writers who have been able to find little of interest in it. Shoshong is a place which has been left behind both by history and by our own inability or sheer disinterest to peer into the past and to get a feel, an understanding as to what happened there, and why.