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• ChronicleDinwao leha e le dipolelo kaga dico tsa seCwanaAlfred John Wookey · 1913not translated into EnglishThe origins, chiefs and customs of the main Tswana peoples, in a history book written in Setswana.Literature
• CinemaThe Dop DoctorL. C. MacBean and Fred Paul · 1915Adaptation of a successful English novel set during the Boer War.Cinema
• TheatreMotswasele IILeetile Disang Raditladi · 1945not translated into EnglishIt is the first historical drama written by an author from Botswana, in Setswana.Literature
• PoetryPraise-Poems of Tswana ChiefsAnonymous · 1965Tswana oral poetry, still recited at the installation of a chief or a president of Botswana.Literature
• NovelWhen Rain Clouds GatherBessie Head · 1968First novel by a South African exile, written in Botswana in the years of independence.Literature
• NovelLove on the RocksAndrew Sesinyi · 1981A love story written for a popular series of African authors; its author is regarded as the first novelist of Botswana in English.Literature
• PoetryImages of the SunBarolong Seboni · 1986First collection by a poet from Botswana, published by an American university where he was pursuing his studies.Literature
• Short storiesChildren of the TwilightMoteane Melamu · 1987A collection by a Botswana academic devoted to the South African townships in the time of the racial laws.Literature
• NovelFar and Beyon'Unity Dow · 2000A family in Botswana facing AIDS, poverty and men who abuse their power, by a judge.Literature

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