Staff Profiles

Master of Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering) The University of Birmingham - UK

PRINCE2 Practitioner

PRINCE2 Foundation

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Introduction to Computing

Systems Administration

Requirements Engineering

Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

1. Tshepho Koboyatshwene, Moemedi Lefoane, Lakshmi Narasimhan, Machine Learning Approaches for Catchphrase Extraction in Legal Documents, Working notes of FIRE 2017 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Bangalore, India, December 8-10, 2017, pp 95 - 98

2. M Lefoane, T Koboyatshwene, G Rammidi, VL Narasimham, Legal Statutes Retrieval: A Comparative Approach on Performance of Title and Statutes Descriptive Text, FIRE (Working Notes), 52-57

3. M Lefoane, T Koboyatshwene, L Narasimhan, KNN clustering approach to legal precedence retrieval, Twelfth International Workshop on Juris-Informatics (JURISIN 2018)

Bachelor of Science (Geology), UB

MSc and PhD in Mineral Economics, Akita, Japan

Ore Geology

Economic Geology

Mineral Exploration

Mineral Commodity Price Ananlysis (market analysis)

Mineral Resources and Economic Development (Resource Curse, Local Content, Mineral and Mining Policy)

Critical Minerals

1. Koitsiwe, K., and Adachi, T., (2015) Relationship between mining revenue, government consumption, exchange-rate and economic growth in Botswana

2. Koitsiwe, K., and Adachi, T., (2015) Australia mining boom and dutch disease

3. Koitsiwe, K.,and Adachi, T., (2017) Linkages between mining and non-mining sectors in Botswana

4. Koitsiwe, K and Adach, T., (2018) The Role of financial speculation in copper prices

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• Master of Arts (English Literature), University of Botswana, Botswana, 2010.

Thesis title: Narcissism and Sexual Aggression in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece.

• Postgraduate Diploma in Education, University of Botswana, 2006

• Bachelor of Arts(English), University of Bots

Mr Daniel Koketso is an English Literature lecturer in the Department of English, with years of experience in literary work – research, teaching, and creative writing. He has published journal articles on various issues with special bias to Shakespeare and Milton and The Metaphysical poets .  He holds an MA in English, BA (English) and PGDE from the University of Botswana. He sits on the Editorial Board and is the Assistant Editor of Petlwana: Journal of Creative Writing from Botswana.

.  Shakespeare

. Milton and The Metaphysical Poets

.African Literature

• Shakespeare and the contemporary world
• Ecocriticism
• Milton
• Literature, politics and pedagogy in Botswana 

Shakespeare and the contemporary world with special bias to Shakespeare and ecology and psychoanalytical reading of Shakespearean drama. 

• Koketso, D. 2019. Uncanny mimesis: Shakespeare and Botswana politics in 2014. Marang: journal of Language and Literature, 31, 59-74.
• Koketso, D. 2019. Ecocritical connections between literature and environmental education in Botswana. Mosenodi: International Journal of the Educational Studies. Vol22, No.2, 64-71
• Koketso, D. (Lead author) & Kgafela-Mokoka N. 2017. “Books are not absolutely dead things”: Milton speaks to freedom of information in Botswana from the grave through Areopagitica. Scrutiny 2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. Published online in April 2018
• Koketso, D. 2017. Of intertextuality: A comparative study of Doctor Faustus and The Rape of Lucrece. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 40.1, 23-30.
• Koketso, D. 2016. “Lucrece this night I must enjoy thee”: A narcissistic reading of The Rape of Lucrece. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 28, 73-79
• Koketso, D. 2015. Battering ram, Ivory Wall - Phallic Symbols and Aggression in Shakespea

• MA (Development Studies), Sussex, England 
• PhD (Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology), Ife, Nigeria 
• MSc (Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology), Ife, Nigeria 
• Bachelor of Agriculture (Honours), Ife, Nigeria 
• Ordinary Diploma (General Agriculture)

Oluwatoyin (Toyin) Dare Kolawole is Professor of Rural Development at the Okavango Research Institute (ORI), University of Botswana (UB) in southern Africa. Professor Kolawole is an Adjunct Faculty at Eastern University based in St Davids, Pennsylvania, USA. He currently leads the Ecosystems Services (ESS) research program. Working at the interface of science, policy and agriculture, he conducts research broadly in development studies with empahsis on community empowerment and agrarian change. He has published well over 120 papers covering diverse development subjects. A UC Visiting Canterbury Fellow in 2014, Dr. Kolawole is a recipient of over 30 academic awards and research/travel grants and has led and managed a number of multi-disciplinary, pro-poor development research funded both locally and internationally. He has attended over 70 regional/international conferences and workshops across all continents. In 2016, the Lesotho’s Council for Higher Education (CHE) appointed him as chairperson of the panel of experts that reviewed the B.Sc. Agricultural Economics Programme of the National University of Lesotho (NUL) and a member of experts that reviewed the B.Sc. Agricultural Extension Programme of the NUL in of 2017. Prof. Kolawole is a verified peer reviewer for several, well recognized scientific journals, and national and multilateral funding agencies. He is a member of the Editorial Board of SAGE Open and International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food.

• Rural Development
• Politics of knowledge/Indigenous knowledge
• Rural entrepreneurship development and employment promotion
• Sustainable agriculture
• Diffusion studies
• Climate variability and change
• Adult literacy
• Environment and Development   

• Climate change and agriculture
• Rural entrepreneurship development and employment promotion 
• Diffusion studies
• Indigenous knowledge and development 
• Adult literacy
• Community development 
• Community based natural resources management
• Poverty, inequality and unemployment
• Rural development
• Water resources management 
• Development studies 

1. Kolawole, O.D. (2023). Reconfiguring rurality, Dialogues in Human Geography. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231202826
2. Noga, S.R., Kolawole, O.D. et al. (2018). ‘Wildlife officials only care about animals’: Farmers’ perceptions of a Ministry-based extension delivery system in mitigating human-wildlife conflicts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Journal of Rural Studies 61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.06.003
3. Kolawole, O. D. et al. (2016). Ethno-meteorology and scientific weather forecasting: small farmers and scientists’ perspectives on climate variability in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Climate Risk Management 4-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2014.08.002
4. Kolawole, O.D. (2015). Twenty reasons why local knowledge will remain relevant to development, Development in Practice 25(8), pp. 1189-1195. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.1078777
5. Kolawole, O.D. (2013). Soils, science and the politics of knowledge: How African smallholder farmers are framed and situated in the global debates on integrated soil fertility management, Land Use Policy 30(1). pp.470-484.  DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.04.006

• Masters of Arts (Economics), University of Botswana

• Bachelor of Arts Social Sciences (Economics), University of Botswana

Mavis is a lecturer in the department of Economics. She joined the university in 2012, as a Staff Development Fellow (SDF) in the department of economics. She holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Botswana and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Economics from the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, China. Her research mainly focuses on income inequality, FDI, unemployment and economic growth. Her areas of teaching specialisation are public sector economic and quantitative methods. Ms. Kolobe is also actively involved in consultancy field research, mainly in labour market outcomes in Botswana. 

• Public Finance

• Mathematics for Economists

• Intermediate Statistics for Economics

• Business Economics

• Income inequality

• Unemployment

• Economic growth

• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

• Income inequality

• Unemployment

• Economic growth

• Business Economics

• Siphambe, H., Bakwena, M., Setlhare, L., Kolobe, M., Oageng, I., Setlhare, K., & Motswagae, T. (2020). Determinants of Unemployment and Labour-Market Transitions for Youth in Botswana. Manila: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP).

• Siphambe, H., Bakwena, M., Setlhare, L., Kolobe, M., Oageng, I., Setlhare, K., & Motswagae, T. (2020). Sustainable Development Goals, Botswana: A Case Study of Gabane Village in Kweneng District. Manila: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP).

• Siphambe, H. K., Kolobe, M., & Oageng, I. P. (2018). Employment Protection Legislation and Unemployment in Botswana. In A. Samir, Employment Protection Legislation in Emerging Economies (pp. 157-191). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

• Kolobe, M., Bakwena, M., & Siphambe, H. K. (2015). Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials: The Case of Botswana’s Labour Market. Asian-African Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 15(2), 127-146.