The name "Botswana" really must go!

I wonder if the envisaged constitutional review encompasses possible change of our country's name. It is really hard to understand how non-Tswana tribes have been able to tolerate the Tribalist name of our country "Botswana" for so long. It is even more surprising when you consider that the Tswana tribes, who originally comprised of only a handful of Anunnaki workgroup types - BangwaAto; BangwaKhwizi; BaKuina are essentially foreigners in this country - they being former residents of Nkami ruins near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.

Every time a non-Tswana raises the subject of Tswana hegemony in our country, the Tswana threaten "Rwanda-like" genocide to cow us down. Why should we care if the Tswana resort to "Rwanda-like" genocide? Why should we continue to let the Tswana deny the rest of the tribes their cultural identities? Why should we continue to allow the Tswana to deny us even the use of our languages in the air waves at tax payer's expense when we continue to pay those taxes to bolster their cultural hegemony over us? Why should we even allow them to visit our "kgotlas" (tribal administration centers) where they force us to speak  their language to the complete exclusion of our own languages?

I think we should tell the Tswana to stuff their constitutional review, until such time that they agree to change the name of our republic to something that is not Tribalist; like Shashe for example.    

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