The interview started with a simple hug.
None of the usual firm handshakes or bro-ish hug with a pat on the back.
The blue-chip telco company CEO embracing me is not playing the dude-code game, a salutatory sign of the times that the old boys club is on slippery ground.
It’s six years since Dzene Makhwade-Seboni occupied the Mascom Wireless Botswana corner office, quite a thunderbolt in an industry that is an embarrassing laggard in the worldwide trend toward gender diversity.
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