I took this photo during one of those splendid electric sunsets we had in Botswana. The man pictured is Godfrey Sekgabo, teacher of Math and Computer studies and coach of the chess team at Ramokgnami CJSS. We were in his garden in the school compound that evening (as we so often were). We had no water for the garden so we were sparingly using the last bit of water from the watertank in the yard. After the work in the garden we would harvest what we wanted for dinner and SK (thats what we called Sekgabo) would usually make dinner. That is unless he was in the mood for one of my American concoctions. Then I would cook. We would then usually watch the news in setswana and play a game of chess. If it was time for the newspapers to come out we would go buy all of them from the general store and then sit and read them. Lively and heated discussions followed about the articles... the government of botswana, the removal of the bushmen from the CKGR, the banning of a University of Botswana for criticizing the government (he was kicked out of the country), the Thokolosi (gosts haunting someone or other), elections, Zimbabwe and its president Uncle Bob...In a country of only 2 million there is always something to talk about. The whole country is like a small town- everybody knows everybodies business.
