Staff Profiles

Bachelor of Business Administration (Marketing)

Post Graduate Diploma in Education (Business Subjects)

Master of Business Administration

Ms Tebo G. Ditshweu is Lecturer/ Industrial Attachment Coordinator, in the Faculty of Business, University of Botswana. She teaches under the Department of Marketing and specifically teaches courses on International trade, Export, Import Marketing.

Ms Tebo has been a member of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Botswana and has worked as part of a team that published some national reports on the Botswana’s entrepreneurial landscape. Being part of GEM Botswana aroused interest in entrepreneurship and specifically future intention to integrate entrepreneurship with exporting in Botswana.

Exporting

Importing

International Trade

Global Business

Marketing

Exporting

Importing

International Trade

Global Business

Marketing

Entrepreneurship

Marketing

International Trade

2000: PhD – Human Induced Change in the Rangelands of Botswana, Department of Geographical Science and Planning, University of Queensland, Australia.

1989: Mphil. – Applied Remote Sensing, Cranfield Institute of Technology – UK.

1987: Post Graduate Diploma -Rural Land Ecology and Remote Sensing-IT

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana (UB). PhD - University of Queensland, 2000. Founder of the Botswana Global Environmental Change Committee (BGCC) that since 1993 served to build awareness and motivate research on climate and related environmental issues. Served in IPCC WGII assessments since the 3rd report and was Coordinating Lead Author in the IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5 °C and hosted its 4th Lead Author Meeting, Gaborone, April 2018. Was Deputy Chair of the Botswana Government National Climate Change Committee and serves in the Botswana National Disaster Management Technical Committee under the Office of the President. During her term (2010-2015),as one of the Vice Chairs of the International Geo-sphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP),led synthesis work on “Global Environmental Change and Least Developed countries” focusing on response to climate related hazards in the Asia Pacific Least Developed Countries. Currently Editor-in-chief of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Journal,Vice Chair of the WMO Science Advisory Panel and Co-Chair of the Science Advisory Committee of the Climate Research for Development in Africa (CRD4) and is one of the 15 Independent Panel of Scientists drafting the UN Global Sustainability Report 2023. Pauline serves in the Climate Advisory Board of Elsevier Publishing Company.She was a Visiting Fellow, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith Universit

Physical Geography, Applications of Remote Sensing, Land use planning and geospatial technology, Integrated Environmental Analysis and Management, Land degradation/desertification, Wild land fires, Energy and environment, Gender and environment, Impacts of climate change, vulnerability and adaptation, Environmental hazards and disasters.

Global environmental  change, environmental sustainability, Wildfires, land degradation, Climate change vulnerability and adaptation, Applications of remote sensing in rangelands and for land use  land cover chnage  

Remote sensing techniques and applications, land cover change, land degradation, fire monitoring and management, woody vegetation determinants in rangelands, climate variability and Factors veld products e.g. Phane caterpillar, impacts of elephants on vegetation and habitats of birds.

Schipper, E.L.F., Tanner, T., Dube, O.P., et al., (2020). The Debate: Is Global Development Adapting to Climate Change? World Development Perspectives.

Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J. Schellnhuber, H.J., Dube, O.P., et al. (2020). The emergence and evolution of Earth System Science. Nat Rev Earth Environ 1, 54–63.

IPCC, SR15: Allen, M.R., O.P. Dube, W. Solecki, et al. (2018). Chapter 1. Framing and Context. In: An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C.

Dube, O.P. (2013). Climate change and sustainable development in Botswana: Towards a framework for adaptation. Chapter 20. In: J. Palutikov, et al. (Eds). Climate Adaptation Futures. Wiley-Blackwell, pp215-226

Dube O. P. (2009). Linking Fire and Climate: Interactions with Land Use, Vegetation and Soil. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability,  1:161-169.

Dube, O. P. and Pickup G. (2001). Effects of Rainfall Variability and Communal and Semi-commercial Grazing. Climate Research 17:19-208

PhD (City, University of London)

MA (City, University of London)

BA (University of the West Indies (UWI))

Adv. Dipl., Mass Comm. (UWI)

Hopeton Dunn is Professor of Media and Communication and Graduate Co-ordinator in the Media Studies Department, University of Botswana. He is also Senior Research Associate (non resident), School of Communication, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He served for six years as Director of the Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Jamaica, and is the Founding Director of the Mona ICT Policy Centre at UWI. Professor Dunn is a former Secretary General of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and currently serves as Chair of the Association's international judging panel for the biennial award of the Stuart Hall Prize. He is an active collaborator with UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy (MILL) programme.

Professor Dunn is a Research Fellow of the the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), based in Kampala, Uganda, and a member of the South African Communication Association (SACOMM).

He served for 10 years as Chairman of the regulatory Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), and for a similar period as Chairman of the government's Creative Production and Training Centre (CPTC), during which he established its training arm Media Technology Institute (MTI) and its affiliated cable channel Creative Television (CTV), now called JAMVISION.

Professor Dunn is a Law Magistrate and a Justice of the Peace for Kingston, Jamaica.

• Media and Communication Theories
• Media Policy, Regulation and Law
• Communication Research Methods
• History of World Media
• Media, Culture and Society
• Media Projects and Dissertations

Globalisation, Communication and Cultural Identity

Broadcasting Regulatory Reforms

Technology Policy and Development

Media and Information Literacy

New Media and the Global South

New Media and Development Strategies

International and Cross Cultural Communication

Telecommunications Policy

Political Communication

1. Dunn, H.; Moyo, D., Lesitaokana, W. and Barnabas S. (Eds) (2020 in-press) – Reimagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Media, Culture and Technology in the Global South, Palgrave Macmillan
2. Robinson, Laura, Schultz, Jeremy and Dunn, Hopeton (Eds) (2017) – Digital Empowerment: Opportunities and Challenges of Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean, Emerald, UK (359 pages) 
3. Dunn, Hopeton (Ed) (2012) – Ringtones of Opportunity: Policy, Technology and Access in Caribbean Communications– Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston (paperback and e-book editions) (300 pgs.) 
4. Dunn, H (2020) Risking Identity: A Case Study of Jamaica's Short-lived National ID System, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Emerald, June 2020, Pages 229 – 233
5. Dunn H. and Lewis R. (2020) Peter Abrahams 100: Milestones in Literature, Media and Political Commentary. In  Critical Arts, Unisa Press and Routledge Vol 34, No 1

B.Sc, PGDE, M.Sc, MBA, Mcs.eh & PhD

Stanley Osezua Ehiane is a Senior Lecturer and a Programme Coordinator in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, at the University of Botswana. Ehiane is also a Research Fellow, at the Department of Development Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa, and a Senior Research Associate (SRA) in the School of Public Management, Governance and Public Policy (SPMGPP), University of Johannesburg, South Africa.  He is the co-author of Citizenship Education and co-author of Public Administrative: An Introduction. He co-edited books on Cybercrime and Challenges in South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan 2023), Engagement of Africa in Conflict Dynamics and Peace Architecture (Palgrave Macmillan 2024), Understanding the Horizontal and Vertical Nature of Africa Migration in Contemporary Times (Palgrave Macmillan-2024) and Gender, Sexualities and Complexities in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan). Ehiane is an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary scholar. He is an active member of the African Studies Research Forum (ASRF), in the United States. His research interest lies in the fields of Governance, peace and conflict, terrorism and counter-terrorism, cybercrime and cybersecurity, climate change, Migration and refugee.

Politics, International Relations, & Security and Strategic Studies

Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary (Governance, peace and conflict, terrorism and counterterrorism, cybercrime and cybersecurity, climate change, Migration and refugee).

1. Gabi Mkhize, Stanley Osezua Ehiane, & Lupenga Mphande (2025). Genders, Sexualities, and complexities in Africa (Ed.). Switzerland. Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/9789819606474.

2. Stanley Osezua Ehiane, Masuku Mandla and Suping Kekgaoditse (2024). Understanding the horizontal and vertical nature of Africa migration in contemporary times (Ed). https://link.springer.com/book/9789819775958. ISBN 978-981-97-7596-5.

3. Paul Kariuki, Stanley Osezua Ehiane & Bhekithemba R Mngomezulu (2024). Political and Civil Leadership in Africa: Changes and Transitions in Political and Civil Leadership in Africa: Changes and Transitions. (Ed). South Africa. UJ Press. 

4. Stanley Osezua Ehiane, Lukong Stella Shulika, Clayton Hazvinei Vhumbunu (2024). Engagement of Africa in Conflict Dynamics and Peace Architectures (Ed). Switzerland. Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/9789819982349.

5. Stanley Osezua Ehiane, Sogo Angel Olofinbiyi, Sazelo Michael Mkhize (Oct 2023). Cybercrime and Challenges in South Africa (Ed). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-3057-

BA Humanities (1995) University of Botswana 

Post Graduate Diploma in Education (1996) University of Botswana

MA in Language Studies (1998) University of Lancaster, UK

PhD in Linguistics (2007) University of Lancaster, UK

Dr. Sibonile Edith Ellece is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English. She specializes in Critical Discourse Analysis and Gender and Language, and teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses that broadly cover introductory linguistics, English grammar, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.She has published widely in the areas of Gender and Language and Critical Discourse Analysis. She has also authored a number of book chapters, and co-authored and co-edited a number of books . Her main research focus is on the intersection of gender, language, sexuality and the cultural institution of marriage and related practices. Dr. Ellece has been Editor in Chief of Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies since 2012 and has transformed it from a print-based journal to a fully online one . She is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language . In addition, she is a member of the editorial boards of Gender and Language and Gender and Education. She is a dedicated reviewer for a number of local and international journals, among which are Discourse Studies, Discourse and Society, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Critical Discourse Studies, Agenda, Feminist Formations, South African Journal of African Languages, Marang and Mosenodi. She has also been a moderator for University of Botswana Affiliated Colleges as well as a member of the Botswana English Panel which is responsible for the periodic revision of the BGCSE English syllabus.

Dr. Ellece has a wealth of experience teaching at institutions of higher learning. Her teaching at the University spans 24 years. She has also taught short courses at Koblenz-Landau in Germany and Lancaster University, UK. She has taught in the area of descriptive linguistics, , and in sociolinguistics, with a focus on discourse analysis and the gender and language interface. She has also taught professional short courses  in critical thinking and advanced oral presentations in CSSU.

Marriage Discourses, Gender, Language and Sexuality, Language and Power in traditional/cultural settings. 

Dr. Ellece has successfully supervised a number of Masters projects  in the area of Discourse Analysis with a focus on gender, politics and the media. She is currently supervising a PhD student who is working on a critical discourse analysis of media representation of political actors in Nigeria. Her greatest supervision strength is in critical discourse analysis and gender. 

Journal Articles:

Ellece S. E. (2012). The Placenta of the Nation: Motherhood Discourses in Tswana Marriage Ceremonies. Gender and Language, 6(1)

Ellece, S. E. (2011). Be a Fool Like Me: Gender Construction in the Tswana Marriage Advice Ceremony. Agenda 25(1)

Books:

Atanga, L., Ellece S. E., Sunderland, J & Litosseliti L. (eds.) (2013). Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Baker, P. & Ellece S. (2011). Key Terms in Discourse Analysis. London and New York: Continuum. ( Trans. Japanese 2018 and partial Mandarin 2016).

Book Chapters

Ellece S. E. ( fc. 2020). Homophobia and the Media: A Sample Critical Discourse Analysis. In Kira Hall & Rusty Barrett (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. Oxford.

Ellece S. E. (2011). Gender and Cultural Identity in a Television Show in Botswana. In Anchimbe & Mforteh (eds.) Post-colonial Linguistic Voices.  Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

PhD (Estate Management) Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

MSc (Estate Mgt.) University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

BSc (Honours) (Estate Mgt.) University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

MBA (B & Fin)

PGD (B & Fin)

FELLOW (FNIVS) since 2001

Registered Estate Surveyor & Valuer

Prof. F. I. Emoh, a registered Estate Surveyor and Valuer and a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, holds BSc, MSc, PhD Degrees in Estate Management  & PGD, MBA in Banking and Finance. He has varied professional experience having worked as a Senior Lands/Valuation Officer in Anambra State, Principal Consultant, Ifeanyi Emoh & Co. and CEO, NIESV Ventures Ltd in Nigeria. He is a Professor of Real Estate & Valuation & HOD at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria before coming to University of Botswana. He has over 60 publications in referred journals, 3 standard real estate textbooks and 3 book chapters. He has served variously as a Board Member, Estate Surveyors & Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON), National Council Member of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors & Valuers (NIESV) & Editor-In-Chief, NIESV Journal. He had also served as the Chairman, Education Committee of ESVARBON  as well as the Education Committee of NIESV. He has provided professional consultancy services to governments, agencies and institutions in areas of property, plant and machinery valuation, compulsory acquisition and compensation claims, real estate & management consultancy. Prof. Emoh is a Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC), a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a Member of NIESV Faculty of Business Assets & Intellectual Property Valuation

Real Estate and Valuation

Business  and Professional Ethics

Business Planning and Entrepreneurship

Land Economics

Building Maintenance

Real Estate and Valuation

Plant and Machinery Valuation

Property Finance and Investments

Property, Facilities and Project Management

Real Estate Entrepreneurship

Restate and Valuation

Appraisals

Rating and Taxation

Real Estate Entrepreneurship

Emoh, F.I., Onyejiaka,J. C. (2020). Developing an efficient database for property valuation in Anambra State, Nigeria. British Journal of Environmental Sciences 8(2) 18-56

Nnametu, J. N., Emoh, F.I. (2020). An Evaluation of Rental Housing Affordability by Staff of Tertiary Institutions in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. Current Urban Studies (8),1-23.  

Ekwebelem V. N., Emoh, F. I. (2020). Effects of Macroeconomic Variables on Residential Property Investment in Abuja Metropolis, Nigeria. IRE Journals 3(7)

 Kalu Nwojo Awa, Nnametu, J. & Emoh, F. I.  (2019). Global determinants of direct real estate investment returns in Nigeria.  PM World Journal   VIII(X) 1-13

Emoh, F.I., Uzuanje, I. (2015).The effect of increasing cost of capital on the profitability of real estate development in Benin City, Nigeria. International Journal of Finance and  and Accounting (IJFA), 6(20), 81-91