Former Botswana President Quett Masire deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest post-colonial African leaders

(2017) Former Botswana President Quett Masire deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest post-colonial African leaders. [Online resource]

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Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, President of Botswana from 1980 to 1998, died late on 22 June 2017 at the age of 91. Masire is by no means a household name, even among scholars of Africa, yet he deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest African leaders in post-colonial history, for three reasons.