CITIZEN JOURNALISM
Is the disseminating of news by the public who are usually first on the scene, this is through social media.



ADVANTAGES


1. The rise of citizen journalism ..according to Tim Pool has with so many technological advances and people exposed to high tech phones and social networks, people who are first in the scene usually have pictures,video clips that they post on social media platforms such as You tube.

2. Pool further says that these incidents and more are changing the landscape of documentary film making, because of the technology used, the distribution platforms that are available and the passion of an ordinary men and women to tell extraordinary stories that were once the domain of professional documentary makers.

3.  factual film making has become a hostage to these new, immediate technologies, many working in the genre praise the development for adding a richer dimension to current affairs and factual documentaries and everyone seems to agree that the genre will never be the same.


DISADVANTAGES


1.  Invades people's privacy

2.  the downside of "FOUND" video. The provenance; it takes money and time to check that it is real and not faked 

3. Just because you can shoot on a camera phone doesn't mean you should. Commissioners will use this as an excuse to cut budgets for factual  information.

 ENJOY THE FOOD, SEE THE COUNTRY , MEET THE PEOPLE



When coming to Botswana one has  not only look forward to the beautiful scenery but  the extraordinary taste of Botswana food and meeting the kind, friendly people...

     

THREE MEALS YOU HAVE TO TRY IN BOTSWANA


1. Seswaa and phaletshe, or bogobe .....
 Botswana's national dish should definitely be tasted when you visit the beautiful country country. All the local dishes use sorghum or maize meal as their basis. Seswaa is usually prepared by men who find it an honor to cook meat as its a primary ingredient.



2.  Mophane worms are a popular dish. the blue and green caterpillar contains around 60% protein and a lot of calcium. They are hand-picked in the wilderness often by women or children. When the caterpillar has been picked, the outer shell is removed. After this they are either dried, according to the traditional style in the sun or  they are smoked. Here they gain a special flavour. They can also be stored for several months, as they are an important source of nutrition in lean times. You can eat them in different forms; boiled, fried, cooked and dried....





3.   Porridge ( bogobe) one dish for every day 
Porridge ( Bogobe) is made with sorghum, maize or millet flour, which is put in boiled water or milk. Somrtimes the sorghum is fermented ( ting) which eaten with sugar or milk. This dish is usually eaten in the morning. Sometimes it is cooked with Botswana's special melon juice and it is called bogobe jwa lerotse.

                              Happy cooking ....great taste :)

Beans are cooked with different kinds of maize that  Botswana has.... which are setampa (Samp), lechotlho, and mmedi......

lechotlho

 Lechotlho is maize that is cooked and hanged to dry after that it is pounded using  hands or other  traditional alternatives. This method was discovers back when the country harvested a lot of maize and there was some suppliers,  this was then the way to reserve the maize well.


Botswana maize is like corn but has more starch in it.

mmedi ( maize)

a dish of samp  in Botswana

     
                                      Happy cooking .... great taste :)

Pulse based dishes are also popular as many kinds of beans and legumes are grown in the country such as cow peas, ditloo (african legume)

different kinds of beans in Botswana

ditloo ( African legume)

beans with samp

                          Happy cooking .....great taste :)

Bread is very popular around the world and there are many ways of cooking bread  as it is in Botswana. There are many types of cooked bread in  Botswana which have been in our country over the years. Their traditional setswana names are as follows  magwinya, diphaphata ( di-pha-pha- ta) , mapakiwa or lobaka and madombi.



       ingredients of making the dough

     4 cups of white or brown bread
     10g of 1 pack of yeast
     salt .... 1/4  tea spoon
     sugar... ( desired size )

Diphaphata ( di- pha-pha -ta )

        

 Diphaphata is a great tasting bread that can be eaten as hamburger  bread to dinner roles. Additional, extra ingredients can be added to make the bread taste even great.

magwinya ( fat cakes)

           

Mangwinya  ( fat cakes) , This is bread deep fried in cooking oil. It can be enjoyed with mince in the middle or any other meat that one wants to use e.g ( seswaa-- pounded beef ).  The taste of such fat cakes is extraordinary.

 mangwinya and mince ( fat cakes and mince)

  

Mapakiwa or lobaka  is pot bread which is cooked by  rubbing cooking oil in a pot, placing small buns of dough in the pot, then putting the lead upside down and putting fire on top and under the pot, basically its like our traditional oven. Different tribes have ways of cooking it but not far from the procedure.


        

mapakiwa or lobaka.

Madombi is dough cooked in small potion of water almost like steamed dough. This bread is very popular and is enjoyed at dinner with beef stew and vegetables.

served madombi with stew and vegetables

                                         Happy cooking...great taste :)

Mopane worms are very popular in Botswana  especially in the  North west district and the central district. The worms are harvested then cooked and dried. some eat them dried some cook them with vegetables to add flavour. The images below will tell the process of mopane worms.

harvesting mopane

removing the  unwanted stuff

cooking mophane worms

dried mopane worms

ready to eat served chilled mopane worms

                                
                           Happy cooking ......great taste :)