As the official Botswana’s leadership transition process got underway, outgoing President Ian Khama needed many nice superlatives and poetic pronouncements on intellectual prowess to usher in his chosen successor – vice president Mokgweetsi Masisi. In almost a case of the past giving in to the future, Khama appropriately chose Moshupa – where his successor comes from – to kick-start his farewell tour. And so on Thursday morning Moshupa Kgotla was packed to full capacity as residents jostled to be part of history – never before has power exchanged hands before their eyes in their own village. In the next three months the village will join others that have given this country a Head of State, when Masisi takes over on April 1, 2018. “I think if he is more intelligent than me; then it is a little bit. If I am more intelligent than him, it is also just a little bit,” he declared of Masisi to the packed Kgotla. He further praised him for his unwavering loyalty – that he never doubted it through the years. Various speakers hailed Khama as a true democrat who upheld the Constitution of Botswana by retiring after his term without seeking an extension.…