Boko writing his own Greek tragedy?

President Duma Boko’s presidency is shaping into a Shakespearean tragedy, brilliant, bold, but burdened by the very traits that once made him stand out. He rose to power on a platform of justice, reform and restoring dignity to the citizen.

A skilled orator and a respected legal mind, he was widely seen as the man to reset Botswana’s political trajectory. But like many tragic protagonists before him, his admirable qualities, confidence, intellect and vision, now appear entangled with a swelling ego and an intolerance for critique.