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Switzerland, Here Comes Michael

One year after falling short in the Red Bull Dance Your Style national final, Alvan-Michael Okere flipped the script. Now Botswana’s newest street dance champion is heading to Switzerland, carrying a dream…

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An End to Free Plots?

As Botswana’s land waiting lists grow and the costs of sprawling development rise, the country…

The Growth Nobody Feels

Why Botswana’s Economy Is Sending Mixed Signals BY DR DOUGLAS RASBASH Botswana’s economy is growing…

 

 

 

Show Up or Shut Up

The Banter Paradox: the brands that participate in the world’s conversations without permission always outperform the brands that wait to be invited. And the counter-argument that holds equally true: a brand that…

Why We Love Football

The Controversy Paradox: the more unfair a game appears to be, the more people watch it. And the counter-argument that holds equally true: a perfectly fair game, with no disputed decisions and…

The Price Of Cheap

The procurement paradox is this: the lowest quote can become the most expensive decision a brand ever makes. Like perfume, a brand lives in the invisible space between quality, trust and desire.…

Please Break Up With Your Favourite Grape

There are more than 10,000 known grape varieties in the world. Ten thousand. Yet somehow, we’ve convinced ourselves that life begins and ends with about six of them. Somewhere along the way,…

The Shifting Beauty Standards in Pageantry

Universal acceptance of diversity is a positive development because as an immensely influential platform, pageantry can now help many girls and young women realise that there is nothing wrong with the way…

Time to Take Action for An Economically Integrated Africa

Aissatou Diallo The need for an economically integrated Africa has never been more urgent. With the severe disruption of global value chains due to Covid-19 and related lockdown measures, there is no…

Well done Rakgare!

Creatives have applauded the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Culture Development for extending monthly stipends to them as announced early this week but want further assessment done with their unions. GOSEGO…

Politics, Power And Sexual Misconduct

In the past decade we have seen people uniting to bring justice to victims of sexual abuse. Organizations like the #metoo movement and #esengmongwangeng movement rose to amplify the voices of the…

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