To make contact again with Tshekedi Khama is a singularly
stimulating experience—and a much more cheerful one than when this cultured and intensely able man was last here con- tending with Mr. Gordon Walker. Tshekedi has no concern with British party politics, but it is clear that his shaken faith in British justice is largely re-established. He long ago renounced all claim to the chieftainship of the Bamangwato, and is perfectly content to look after his extensive cattle-ranching and other interests in Bamangwata territory as a private citizen. He is not debarred from engaging in the politics of Bechuapaland as a whole, and has ideas of gradually developing a federal relation- ship between the eight tribes in the Protectorate with a federal Legislative Council. Nothing is more important than to foster the educational, economic and political progress of the Protec- torate as a whole. To all this Tshekedi's great ability could with advantage be applied.
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