SIR SERETSE KHAMA’S OBSERVATION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING ONE’S OWN HISTORY (DELIVERED AT THE MAY 1970 UBLS GRADUATION) We were taught, sometimes in a very positive way, to despise ourselves and our ways of life. We were made to believe that we had no past to speak of, no history to boast of. The past, so far as we were concerned, was just a blank and nothing more...It should now be our intention to try to retrieve what we can of our past. We should write our own history books, to prove that we did have a past, and that it was a past that was just as worth writing and learning about as any other. We must do this for the simple reason that a nation without a past is a lost nation, and a people without a past are a people without a soul.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:18:49 +0000
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