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The rift between former Botswana president Ian Khama and his handpicked successor remains as deep as ever.Khama describes his 2018 decision to pass power to then-vice-president Mokgweetsi Masisi as a “poor choice" and says his “loyal” friend soon “changed his spots".Among their fallouts was Masisi's rolling back of Khama’s signature conservation policies, including a ban on trophy hunting.Khama subsequently launched his own political party and later fled to South Africa when Masisi’s government

Ethiopia was never colonized and for decades was the poster child of poverty in Africa.Botswana was colonized and has been one of Africa’s best-performing economies.Vietnam was colonized, devastated by war, and heavily bombed. Today, it is doing remarkably well.Bottom line: colonialism cannot explain why some countries prosper while others do not.