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When the African republic of Botswana was born in 1966, its future seemed as bleak as most of its arid countryside. A landlocked nation the size of France, occupied largely by the Kalahari Desert, the former British protectorate was suffering from six years of drought, an impoverished government, and a subsistence economy based almost entirely on cattle raising. Now, discoveries of vast mineral deposits promise to lift Botswana above the problems shared by the rest of black Africa's non-oil-producing countries...
NAMIBIA lies directly to the northwest of South Africa on the Atlantic coast. Though the country is the size of France and Britain combined, the Kalahari and Namib deserts cover most of the land. Of a population estimated between 610,000 and 750,000, 88 per cent is black or coloured and the remaining 12 per cent, white...
...form of fiction does honor to a part of African culture now mostly dissipated or adulterated: the tribal way of living that civilized people are pleased to call primitive. The author, who knows Africa well and has written of it memorably in The Lost World of the Kalahari, argues in a passionate introduction that the nature of primitive Africa must somehow be recorded so it will "always be there to help thaw the frozen imagination of our civilized systems so that some sort of spring can come again to the minds...
Antony Jay, a British management consultant and former BBC producer, thinks that the distance between the tribal councils of Kalahari bushmen and the inner circles of IBM is not all that great. In a book to be published next month, Corporation Man (Random House; $7.95), Jay argues that modern business firms are organized on the same basis as aboriginal tribes. Furthermore, the behavior of corporate executives springs not so much from reason as from animallike, prehistoric instincts. As in Management and Machiavelli, a 1968 book in which Jay compared the corporation to a nation-state, he has done little scientific...
...masterpiece of the book is an eight-page epic called "Thunder Under the Kalahari" or, Aliquid Novi ex Botswana? Prefaced by an item in the London Times about the discovery of truffles in the Kalahari desert and the possible resulting boost to the economy of Botswana (the former Bechuanaland), it's a tale of intrigue, adventure, and romance. Perelman is ensconced in the Mushmouth Arms, Bexhill-on-Sea, knowing that it is at this type of dreary seaside resort that one runs into an eccentric fellow guest who imparts some remarkable tale. Sure enough, he finds a strange...