The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

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