The Advent of Upgrading Schemes in Urbanizing Traditional Settlements of Botswana: Case of Kanye Village

Botswana is a country with one of the fastest urbanizing population in sub-Saharan Africa over 60% its living cities, towns and urban villages. consists several traditional settlements within settlement system, which have years transformed terms size, morphology economic structures. The policy intervention processes resultant physical configuration these testimony to political economy Botswana’s history. Contemporary planning as key process, settlements, however, provides space for contest between formal based on ‘northern-derived theory’ indigenous practices. Thus, advent Upgrading Schemes, part this contemporary planning, brings fore contestation. This paper traces case an Scheme Kanye village, articulating relevance, shortcomings limitations effect change, so proposes framework upgrading schemes could be formulated undertaken Botswana.