President Duma Boko fancies himself a daredevil who treads where angels fear to dare. In one of his favorite lines, Botswana’s sixth president gloats about how he can be “chill in hellfire.”
Hardly six months in office, Boko’s carefully curated death-or-glory image is being tested as he finds himself caught up in the world biggest diplomatic hellfire: the trade war between the world’s two biggest superpowers, China and United States of America
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