Botswana Writers

Welcome to the Botswana Writers website! This site is meant to be a resource for those interested in works written by Batswana writers.

Writer Index:
with links to writer pages

Tjawangwa Dema (poet-scholar) and Mary Lederer (scholar of Bessie Head and Botswana literature) maintain the site. We do not supply any critical or analytical content. Writers provide the information that they choose to put on their pages, and we are unable to verify the accuracy of what they send.

To learn more, go to the Writer Index, click on the writer’s name, and you will be taken to a webpage that gives a short biography, a list of what they have published, and further links to websites with more information about them.

For general background or an overview of the Botswana literary landscape, please see the following links:

• Literature of Botswana (Wikipedia page)
• Botswana Women Write, edited by Maitseo M. M. Bolaane, Mary S. Lederer, Leloba S. Molema, and Connie Rapoo, 2019 (review)
• "Tswana War Poetry: Part One", by Ashley Jackson, Botswana Notes and Records, vol. 27, 1995, pp. 97–110.
• Novels of Botswana in English, 1930–2006, by Mary S. Lederer (JSTOR link)
• "The History and Future of Literature in Botswana", interview with Barolong Seboni, by Gaamangwe Mogami and Bame Mogami, Africa in Dialogue, July 12, 2017.

Please report any problems to <reading.botswana (at) gmail.com>. If you know of writers from Botswana who would like to be included, please also write to Mary at the address given. This site is updated yearly.