Botswana in the News

Bose Maposa, Assistant Director for Graduate Programs in the Center for International Studies (CIS), was named Outstanding Administrator for the 2020-2021 academic year by the Outstanding Administrator Awards Committee of the Administrative Senate. A two-time OHIO alum (African Studies ‘09 and Public Administration ‘10) who also studied in Botswana and Cuba, Maposa joined CIS in 2010 as the Assistant Director for the African Studies Program and was promoted to her current position in 2018.

Botswana is looking to welcome tourists once again to its expansive and elephant-rich delta as the country began a phased reopening of its borders on Monday, according to the government.

The country allowed air travel to resume at several major airports, including the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in the capital of Gaborone, and will require travelers to show a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of their departure, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced last week.

Classical liberalism, as the economist Deirdre McCloskey argued in her trilogy The Bourgeois Era, was chiefly responsible for the Great Enrichment in Western Europe and North America. However its main tenets – including limited government, equality before the law, free trade and fiscal probity – are not the exclusive preserve of the West. Just look at the rise of Hong Kong.