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Botswanan

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Bot·swa·na  (bt-swän) Formerly Bech·u·a·na·land (bch-wän-lnd, bch-ä-)
A country of south-central Africa. Originally inhabited by the San and later (18th century) by the Tswana, the region became a British protectorate after 1885 and gained full independence in 1966. Gaborone is the capital and the largest city. Population: 1,820,000.
Bot·swanan adj. & n.
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Adj.1.Botswanan - of or pertaining to Botswana or the people of Botswana


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In turn, in her arresting installation O se bone thola borethe: Pandora's Box (2004), the Botswanan artist Neo Matome unearthed an everyday topography of taken-for-granted assumptions about women, affliction, and healing, while reconstituting these diverse elements into an uncanny conclave.
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Khotso Makhulu, a Botswanan and then-archbishop of the Province of Central Africa, said, "Let not the intolerance of a variety of contexts inexorably lead us to [churchwide] intolerance, which if unchecked, will find us with a band of vigilantes and fundamentalists.
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Botswanan authorities suspended a senior nurse in March after he was caught using a single needle to vaccinate 83 schoolchildren against hepatitis and tetanus in north-western Botswana.
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