biography
pronunciation:
[kahma]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1921–80)
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| biography:
| Botswana statesman and president (1966–80), born in Serowe, E Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland). He studied at Oxford, became a lawyer, and after marrying an Englishwoman, Ruth Williams, in 1948, was banned from the chieftainship and the territory of the Bamangwato. Allowed to return as a private citizen in 1956, he became active in politics, and was restored to the chieftainship in 1963. He became the first prime minister of Bechuanaland (1965), and the first president of Botswana. He was knighted in 1966. |
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