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Gaborone \u2014 “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.”<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
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