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Botswana is a land-locked country which came into being on 30 September 1966. The British colonizers granted political independence to the country on this date, and beyond the euphoria of independence the identification of instruments for the development of the young nation soon became the prime preoccupation of its pioneer leaders. Educatiun was identified as being important. Consequently, after the first decade of its independence, Botswana, in 1976, laid the foundation of the first true national policy on education with the then president commissioning a National Commission on Education that was charged with the responsibility of endowing the young nation with an educational policy which reflects values that are distinctly Batswana (Letshabo, 2000; Maruatona, 2007).
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Biao, I., Maruatona, T. (2015). The State of Adult Education in Botswana in the Twenty-First Century. In: Milana, M., Nesbit, T. (eds) Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Learning Policy. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388254_7
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