Botswana: Former Speaker Dies At 78

Gaborone — “And when great souls die, after a period, peace blooms. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us… ‘They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”

Those words from “When Great Trees Fall,” a poem by African-American poet, writer and civil rights activist, the late Maya Angelou, offer a poignant lament as the nation learned of the death of Ambassador Gladys Kokorwe, former

Speaker of the National Assembly, who died in hospital on…