Botswana election: Duma Boko - the politician who did the unthinkable

Duma Boko is elected the country's first president not from the ruling party, in power for 58 years.

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The 54-year-old's thoughtful, fluent sentences speak of his legal education first in Botswana and then at Harvard Law School in the US.

And despite being humble in victory, the fact that he won the presidency at the third time of asking reveals a single-minded ambition.

For more than 50 years opposition politicians have dreamt of unseating the mighty Botswana Democratic Party, but only Boko has made that a reality.

The crushing manner of the victory of his Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) party came as a surprise, including it seems to Boko himself, who admitted being shocked by the numbers.

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