Sunday, November 16, 2025

Boko in Masisi’s corner against Khama’s tourism stranglehold

President Duma Boko is the face of Botswana’s tourism reform, but he comes across more as a pinch-hitter who came in to relieve his predecessor Mokgweetsi Masisi, in a bruising legacy war to dismantle former President Lt Gen Ian Khama’s tourism machine.

A recent academic paper details how President Boko has picked up where Masisi left off, in challenging Khama’s grip on Botswana’s lucrative tourism sector.

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