CULTURE

The Okavango Delta remains one of Botswana’s greatest natural and economic assets, but climate variability, high elephant densities and pressure to expand tourism are testing the model that protects it. Preserving Botswana’s premium wilderness brand may now require more deliberate management than ever before.

Botswana’s Okavango Delta attracts some of the world’s highest-paying safari travellers and supports a celebrated low-volume, high-value tourism model. But as tourism becomes increasingly important to the economy, a harder question emerges: how much of that extraordinary value actually reaches Batswana and surrounding communities?

Setswana is spoken by the vast majority of Botswana’s 2.6 million people — yet higher education, digital platforms, and formal employment in Botswana operate almost exclusively in English. As Botswana pursues AI-led economic growth, is the country building a knowledge economy its own language cannot fully participate in?

In South Africa, the mall is not just a place to shop - it’s a lifestyle destination, a social circuit, and increasingly, a coffee hub. Across the country, with over 3,500 malls stretching from Sandton to Sea Point, coffee culture has planted itself firmly between...

Long before coffee became a commodity, a culture, or a multi-billion-dollar industry, it was simply a mystery - hiding in the highlands of Ethiopia. The legend begins not in a boardroom or a barista’s hand, but on a hillside, with a herd of restless goats and a...