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Mapoka

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{{Location map|Botswana|lat=-20.542|long=27.588|caption=Mapoka}}Mapoka is a small village in the North-East District of Botswana. Its neighboring villages are Nlapkhwane, Moroka, and Masukwane.^[1] The 2001 population and housing census put its population at 1,540.^[2]

There is one primary school and one secondary school in the village. Mapoka Primary School is famous nationally for being one of the oldest in the country and for having educated some of the country's most prominent figures.^[3]

Past graduates of the school include the Botswana's former chief justice Julian Nganunu, government ministers Charles Tibone and Phandu Skelemani, the late Knight Maripe who co-founded the opposition Botswana People's Party,Milenje City Kealotswe,Josia Moswela and a score of University of Botswana academics including Professor Richard Tabulawa,^[4] Dr Badala Tachilisa Balule [https://web.archive.org/web/20110515014144/http://www.thevoicebw.com/2011/02/18/the-learned-man/], etc. In 2006, the school celebrated 106 years of existence in a ceremony officiated by the country's president Festus Mogae.

Mapoka has a wealthy of unexplored rock paintings similar to the ones found in the Tsodilo Hills.These paintings are found in caves in the dalale hills that stretches from Nlaphwane to Plum Tree in Zimbabwe.

Rain making dance event is held in The mapoka every year at a special place called GumbuThe dancers called "wosana",dress in Black clothes,don black an white beads,and they dance to Mwali (God) pleading for rainLike all the villages in North East when it comes to the festive season,the village comes to life,all working proffesionals who are based in the cities use the holidays to visit their parents an families.Football is a major spectacle in the village.it generates money for the whole village

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1. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20091027140832/http://geocities.com/bndaba/mapoka.htm
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cso.gov.bw/html/census/dist60.html |title=Distribution of population by sex by villages and their associated localities: 2001 population and housing census |accessdate=2007-12-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124145438/http://www.cso.gov.bw/html/census/dist60.html |archivedate=2007-11-24 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
3. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.gov.bw/cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20061023&i=Mogae_praises_community | title = Mogae praises community | publisher = Botswana Press Agency (BOPA) | accessdate = 2007-12-08}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Prof Tabulawa is UB Dean of Education|url=http://www.ub.bw/news.cfm?a=806|work=University of Botswana – News|accessdate=13 April 2012}}

Mapoka is a small to medium village suited in the northeast district, with a population of about 1,893 according to 2011 census, its neighboring villages includes Kgari, Nlakhwane, Moroka, and Masukwane.Mapoka has one primary school and a junior secondary school batanani.

1 : Villages in Botswana

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