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Botswana's plea for No 1 lesson on Africa

His African tales of Precious Ramotswe have been bestsellers across the globe. Now one of Africa's leading bishops has blessed the idea of putting Alexander McCall Smith's No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series on the curriculum in both Britain and Africa in order to show people that there is "more to Africa than poverty and disease".

Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba, the Bishop of Botswana, where the books are set, said he wanted to take the message in McCall Smith's work a step further and make them an educational tool. He said: "His books - and I'm honoured that I make an appearance in several of them - reveal to a huge audience all over the world that there is another side of Africa, a peaceful, a loving, a humanistic and above all Christian side which is, I'm sad to say, so often ignored by the media."

Full story at Scotland on Sunday.