Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
LB 53
Bamangwater = people of the place of mother-of-Ngwato
or ba-ga-mma-Ngwato, "Ngwato people place"
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
LB 37
Take a look at the Terrain view of the Sat map "Gaborone" here:
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Gaborone.htm
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Gaborone.htm
Navigate til you can see "Mashupa" in the lower left of the map, and then check out the Satellite view, where the river you are looking at is the Notwane River. This is probably what the cook means by "Notobane River."
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
LB 28
Q: Who is drinking together? What then does "all hands" mean here?
Class: Try finding Kanye on a map of Botswana on-line.
Friday, September 18, 2009
LB 23
"King John McShisby" may be a derogatory
term intended to belittle the water hole's
resident African herders, -- or a dog, or --?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
LB 16
Two notes: Sluit = South African English for
gully or rift in the ground caused by erosion
Monkoran is Mankurwane
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
LB 5
The end figure is Cecil John Rhodes, whose first
constituency as a Cape Colony (European
voters only) politician was Barkley (today,
Barkly West), a Boer area, a diamond area
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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