I strongly feel compelled to rebut a narrative now doing the rounds that the recently dethroned Botswana Democratic Party (the BDP) was ever a liberation movement. Following the defeat of the BDP after almost sixty (60) years in power, some commentators have rushed to the microphones and bemoaned the fall of one of Southern Africa’s liberation movements, thus elevating the BDP to political organizations such as the ANC, FRELIMO, PAC, SWAPO, ZAPU and ZANU. Well, I strongly disagree. My understanding of a liberation movement is it is a subaltern political organization leading a nationalist rebellion against internal colonialism and/or imperialism.
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