Concerned about the growing plagiarization of speeches of American leaders by African leaders, University of Botswana (UB) academic Dr Letshwiti Tutwane, through his company Optimum Answers, has organised speechwriter training to address the problem professionally. The first ever speechwriter training, scheduled for September in Gaborone, targets corporate executives, corporate and government communication personnel, government executives, politicians, private secretaries. "It is hoped that by bringing such training to Africa and to Botswana in particular, we can improve our bureaucratic set-up and inject a modicum of both efficiency and effectiveness," said Tutwane. For many years African leaders have been exposed for plagiarising speeches from elsewhere, particularly from American presidents. The problem has been recurring recently with the inauguration of President Buhari in Nigeria in 2015 and President Nana Akufo-Addoin Ghana in January 2017. Closer home the latest revelation has been that a senior executive at UB had reproduced and presented as his, a speech from the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland. President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, was also recently exposed after reading a speech plagiarised from that of US president when addressing a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) congress in Kang. "Clearly this problem was not going away and it needed to…