#botswana

[tsalala]

Girl with one eye Okavango Delta, Botswana Photographed by Nala Malan

[mrgrizz44-blog]

favourite capture of the entire trip

[porterdavis]

Slick burn (well deserved)

[rorisang-lu]

[witchstone]

Great Egret  Ardea alba Ngamiland North, Botswana -18.4236971367, 21.9395701083 by krzysier

[momosane]

Letsile Tebogo won Botswana their first ever Olympic gold medal! and became the first African to win the men’s 200m at the Olympics.

He dedicated his gold medal to his mother who passed away just a few months ago. His nails have her initials and her birthday on his track spikes to honor her.

[unbfacts]

Henry, a 124-year-old Nile crocodile, lives at South Africa's Crocworld Conservation Centre. He is over 5 meters long, has fathered more than 10,000 crocodiles since 1985, and was captured in 1903. Henry is still active, strong, and healthy.

[folkfashion]

Kalanga woman, Botswana, by Nancy Mogocha

[pangeen]

" Posing Monarch " // © Yves Strybos

[jstor]

Under apartheid, publishing radical books was an act of resistance. Ravan Press, (founded in 1972 by Peter Randall and others) amplified banned voices, Black Consciousness writers, and critical texts that commercial publishers wouldn’t touch.

Ravan published the first novels by authors like J.M. Coetzee and Miriam Tlali, often risking raids and censorship to do so. Its work was one part of a broader liberation struggle across Southern Africa, building political awareness from the grassroots up.

See more primary sources in the Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa collection on JSTOR, with an emphasis on materials from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

Image: Books for Workers from Ravan Press. January 1, 1984. Digital Innovation South Africa.

[nitrochrome]

his favorite country I suppose

[tsalala]

The image was captured in Moremi National Park, Botswana, and features a pride of lions that successfully took down a large elephant. There were about 7 to 8 lions in the pride, and the hunt lasted all night.

Photograph and caption by Björn Persson

[mrgrizz44-blog]

leopard pictures i took in botswana 🇧🇼🐆

[platypusesforarms]

Elephants & their trunks 🐘 A Year on Planet Earth (2022)

An elephant's trunk is one of the most complex organs on earth. Delicate enough to pluck a blade of grass; strong enough to lift 250 kilograms. No wonder it'll take this baby elephant the rest of the year to master.

[rorisang-lu]

[inatungulates]

African bush elephant Loxodonta africana

Observed by stephen220, CC BY-NC