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He stared at the man in the mirror whom he barely recognized. When he first looked at his image he winced, startled by the pitifully gloomy figure looking back at him. He wanted to go back but pride kept him from doing so, the kind of stubbornness that causes a man to temporarily feel powerless. He felt as if he were in a darkened theater watching a depressingly bad movie. But instead of a movie, it was his life-and this, the darkest scene yet. He remembered how he felt on the day John F. Kennedy was killed-numb from the shock of it all. Of course his experience was not world shaking, like...

This book examines the process through which the mantle of leadership passed from one leader to another in Botswana. It concerns the succession to high office in Botswana over the course of more than half a century from the colonial time to the present. Three case studies explore the relationship between the British colonial authorities and the tribal leaders in affirming the legitimacy of the tribal chiefs of the Bangwato tribe in the former Bechuanaland protectorate. The studies examine the succession crises of the Bangwato first in 1925 and again between 1948 to 1953 and the political...