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Botswana is such an amazing country and an underrated one even in Africa. After colonialism, the leadership under Seretse Khama didn't simply do as other post-colonial African leaders did i.e. he didn't go full marxist authoritarian and instead kept the institutions and socio-economic model the British had built up and even modified it. Plus, he maintained good diplomatic relationships with the west and due to his sound leadership, Botswana continues to be a politically stable and economically stable and growing country in Africa and this is despite being between two basket case countries of Zimbabwe and South Africa (Zimbabwe 2.0)
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@patrickfox4052 No, state control doesn't do jack squat for national progress or economic prosperity. If that were the case Zimbabwe would be richer than Botswana. What matters more is respect and adherence to rule of law, political stability and a free market where domestic and international businesses and individuals feel secure enough to invest in the economy. It's why Botswana, Rwanda, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and other similar countries are doing well economically and socially compared to regressive leftist nations.
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Sad but true. Seretse Khama and the majority of Botswana's leadership were the exception to the rule. They didn't embrace any marxist or left leaning garbage that the rest did and they had foresight.
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Right...."successful". Just because he was black and a marxist. Why you westerners just drool over these people is beyond me. Do you seriously think most of us in Africa don't want to have good and prosperous economies and nations like Botswana? Do you not know how much damage these marxists did to Africa in the 60s to the 80s?!
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Fuck Sankara and his marxist views! His ilk of "pan Africanist" leaders just set many African countries backwards and all but destroyed their national unity and economic progress in the late 60 to 80s.
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I genuinely didn't know this. Thanks for the info.
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@ShehuStebe Okay, I own up to that mistake of mine. I should have said "doing well relative to its neighbors" but you are right. Rwanda has many issue underlying. That being said, I still disagree with you on the need for excessive state control of a country, which has been shown to stifle economic growth and development in the short and long-run. Increased privatization and liberal economic policies are what ultimately helps countries grow and develop socially and economically.
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Botswana, along with Seretse Khama, is the most underrated African country and African leader. While the rest of sub-Saharan Africa turned to destructive socialist or marxist doctrine that ended up destroying their fledgling economies and semblance of national unity and many of these terrible leaders are still hailed as "Freedom fighters" or "Visionaries" Seretse and the rest of the Botswana leadership post-colonialsim rejected that and instead embraced the better aspects of what the British left i.e governmental systems and economic systems and improved on them! That is amazing! Despite the fact that Botswana and Namibia are next to South Africa and Zimbabwe, they have managed to not become s*it holes. God bless these two countries and God bless Seretse Khama!
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