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the dictator of the bantustan across the border that would someday like to engulf Botswana because they’re all Tswana after all, and there are five million of them under Mangope and only one million in Botswana. The Boers love Mangope’s irredentism and keep it pumped up.
When I left the U.S. for Africa he was probably about even with Ivan Illich on the clerisy’s fame meter. The clerisy is a word I got from Nelson which turns out to be indispensable, like others of his.
briefly thought it meant the same as clergy lol
I don’t know if this was deliberate protean behavior à la cornered jackrabbits or if it was simply adventitious.
Meanwhile the issue of the night men was turning crescive without my noticing.