Word: botswanans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...count, we've mourned Obed Ramotswe 12 times this morning, and I'm not the only one feeling slightly overcome. His daughter, Precious, has cried her way through 12 renditions of the Botswanan funeral spiritual "Your Yoke Is Light to Carry," and when I approach her, she tearfully waves me away, saying: "I have to stay where I am." Several members of the congregation also look like they can't go on. Even the Western PR executive next to me, a veteran of hundreds of scenes like this, tells me she's finding the whole thing "really quite moving...
...always like this at a Botswanan funeral. "It is," he replies brightly. "It was very important for us for the village to be a part of this film. We told them it was a funeral and asked them to bring Botswana to the movie. So they are being moving and spiritual. It has that impact, yes. You respond that...
...Miss hiv Stigma Free pageant, held last weekend in the Botswanan capital, Gaborone, is a beauty show with a difference. All 12 competitors are infected - and determined to prove that living with HIV doesn't slow them down or make them any different. "We are all human beings," says show founder and organizer Kesego Basha-Mupeli, herself hiv positive. "What we want to prove is that we are exactly the same as everyone else. We can live productive, positive and happy lives. Here we are. Accept...
...denial over spiraling rates of HIV, Botswana is trailblazing a progressive approach that points to possible solutions, not just for its citizens but for the continent. The government admits its problem and is making inroads against the disease with help from outside. Although more than one in three Botswanan adults has the aids virus, more than 35,000 (including nine of the 12 contestants) now take antiretroviral drugs (ARVS), meaning they should live relatively normal - and long - lives. "For many people it has become a manageable chronic condition," says Brad Ryder, communications manager at the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership...
Delight is the slightly rumpled, bow-tied McCall Smith's operative mode. His books--The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls and The Kalahari Typing School for Men--which detail the quiet and quirky adventures of Botswanan sleuth Mma (pronounced Ma, the most correct way of addressing women in Botswana) Ramotswe, have become international word-of-mouth hits, sold millions and been translated into 26 languages, partly because of their sheer cheerfulness...