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Botswana Rated As One Of The Coolest Nationalities By CNN
Botswana has been ranked at number 9 out of 12 coolest nationalities on a list compiled by CNN Travel.
“With a tax-evading Wesley Snipes and a vacationing Angelina Jolie entourage always a risk in Namibia, it falls to neighboring Botswana to pick up the regional cool crown.
So chilled it’s a wonder the Kalahari desert doesn’t frost over, the Batswana — as they prefer to be known — cut their own groove, particularly when riffing home-grown gumba-gumba jazz or laid-back hip hop.
Even the animals are relaxed in Botswana. Home to Africa’s largest elephant population, the country chooses not to fence in its wild beasts like some other safari nations.
Icon of cool: Mpule Kwelagobe. Crowned Miss Universe in 1999, Kwelagobe actually made good on those “I want to make the world a better place” pledges, campaigning relentlessly for HIV/AIDS awareness.
Not so cool: One of the worst HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world.”
Other cool nationalities include Belgium, Singapore, Korea, Brazil and America among others.
