State Strategy, Diamond Mining, and Indigenous Dispossession in Botswana

What is it about?

This article examines the strategies used by the political elite of Botswana, to dispossess their Indigenous San population by expelling them from the region they lived in, for the sake of natural resource extraction (diamonds).

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Why is it important?

This article shows how Botswana, often called the 'miracle State' of Africa, engages in harmful, anti-Indigenous practices, for the sake of so-called 'economic development'.