Kitsoyabone
Kitsoyabone was one of my students at Boswelakgosi Community Junior Secondary School, when I was a Peace Crops volunteer in Botswana, during the two years 1990-1991. December 1991, I completed service and left Botswana; Kitso graduated near the top of his class and went on to senior secondary school. Several years later, I received a letter from Kitso relating his near-death experience which "Half Life" alludes to. I replied, but then, with various moves, we lost touch again, until with the help of another former student, Godfrey, I was able to visit Kitso at his workplace in 2008 when I made my first return back to Botswana since 1991. Kitso was now a police officer in Thamaga, Botswana. I gave Kitso a copy of Nomadic Foundations--my first book, which largely came out of my experiences in Botswana and which is dedicated to my students at BCJSS--and showed him the poem I had dedicated to him. The second photograph here is from that moment; the first is of Kitso at Boswelakgosi in 1991.
Kitsoyabone was one of my students at Boswelakgosi Community Junior Secondary School, when I was a Peace Crops volunteer in Botswana, during the two years 1990-1991. December 1991, I completed service and left Botswana; Kitso graduated near the top of his class and went on to senior secondary school. Several years later, I received a letter from Kitso relating his near-death experience which "Half Life" alludes to. I replied, but then, with various moves, we lost touch again, until with the help of another former student, Godfrey, I was able to visit Kitso at his workplace in 2008 when I made my first return back to Botswana since 1991. Kitso was now a police officer in Thamaga, Botswana. I gave Kitso a copy of Nomadic Foundations--my first book, which largely came out of my experiences in Botswana and which is dedicated to my students at BCJSS--and showed him the poem I had dedicated to him. The second photograph here is from that moment; the first is of Kitso at Boswelakgosi in 1991.
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