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Expand Botswana: Dagga/Motokwane words, culture, two 2026 articles

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Countries and states 1 file

Botswana countries/bw.yaml

words

word Dagga · lang English (Botswana) · meaning cannabis; the southern African word used in the 2018 Act · sources ita18, word Motokwane · lang Setswana · meaning cannabis; the Setswana name used alongside dagga in the 2018 Act · sources ita18

context › culture › text

Cannabis is known as [dagga](/culture/language/dagga/) and motokwane in the 2018 Act.[@ita18] Dagga still dominates the drug trade: the 2025 risk assessment put marijuana at P48.8 million of a P54 million illicit market.[@nra26] The 2025 Cannabis Act licenses medical and industrial cannabis but not recreational use, as that [Act](/history/botswana-cannabis-act-2025/) records.[@cannabis25]

context › culture › sources

ita18, nra26, cannabis25

Articles and atlas entries 2

Code, design and documents 1 file

docs/research/expansion-2026-10-28-africa-6.md +27 −0
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+# Africa-6 batch — expansion-2026-10-28-africa-6 (bw, ls, mw, sz, tn, cg, zm)
+
+Africa's top-25 is exhausted (all eligible countries done in Africa-1..5 or by
+other agents: eg/dz/ma/ci/gh/cm/mg/sn recently expanded). This batch takes the
+remaining profile-complete countries whose gaps are culture/words/articles/history:
+atlas-backed first, then the rest. Skipped: South Africa (other agent), Eritrea
+(closed), Sudan (recently done), Somaliland (unrecognized). Left for later: mr, ly
+(Arabic-source words needed), ml (ladder work already landed).
+
+- bw Botswana: culture section missing (atlas: dagga, earth-pipe), words missing
+- ls Lesotho: culture section missing (atlas: dagga, matekoane), words missing
+- mw Malawi: 3 texts need cites, post-2024 check, words (atlas: chamba + traditions)
+- sz Eswatini: words check, culture check (atlas: earth-pipe, spit-bubble-game)
+- tn Tunisia: words check, culture check (atlas: zatla)
+- cg Rep. Congo: driving/black_market missing, words (no atlas)
+- zm Zambia: words (no atlas)
+
+## bw — committed
+- Words Dagga (English (Botswana)) + Motokwane (Setswana), both via the 2018 Act; new culture section linking the dagga atlas + 2025 Act (dropped two earth-pipe wordings whose claims the cited Act could not support).
+- New `articles/botswana-industrial-cannabis-regulations-2026.md` (0.7% THC, licence terms, elitism row) + `articles/botswana-drug-driving-ban-planned-2026.md` (Atamelang announcement vs existing s.46 offence).
+- Audit 0/0; full `npm test` 193/0; page + both articles verified in review HTML.
+## ls — pending
+## mw — pending
+## sz — pending
+## tn — pending
+## cg — pending
+## zm — pending

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