Time: 12:00PM–1:30PM

Home of the San (Bushmen) of the Kalahari, Botswana is one of Africa's success stories, with the emergence of a functioning democracy since independence in 1966. Steady improvements deriving from diamond wealth include active universal treatment programs for the depredations of HIV. Readers will know it through "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency". Jaap will describe the country and his experiences there helping to develop higher education.