Dear Victor Baatweng,
Thank you for the open letter you wrote me last week through the pages of the Sunday Standard. I thought it is my duty to respond out of deep respect to you and common courtesy. I read your open letter with deep pride and gratitude. It is one of the rare blessings of scholarship to see a student not only listen, but also internalize, reflect, and act upon the teachings shared in lecture halls and public forums. Your reflections on constitutional review, participatory democracy, and the need for a truly people-driven process testify to a maturing constitutional consciousness. Your letter is not only a sequel to a podcast conversation, but also a timely reminder, that history obliges us to get it right, this time round. This conversation, son of Ngamiland Soil, is a profound contribution to the most critical conversation of our nationhood.
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