 Why did Botswana experience a positive post-colonial development compared to many other African states? Botswana had the enormous advantage of having a talented leader who put the state before himself and his family. So Siretsi Kama really fought through the problems of democratization and growth and decided the only way forward was to have a leadership responsive to the people and a leadership which focused really on gradually improving Botswana's potential in the world. And so he created an honest leadership with a vision of the future of Botswana which he sold to the people and then delivered political goods, economic, social, and cultural over the next several years and left a legacy to his successors which they built for him as well. And so the Botswana today has sound institutions and the African men and Africans only enduring democracy so that's the contribution Siretsi Kama made to Botswana and to Africa.