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The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency returns to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 shortly. The stories, of course, are set in Botswana. But did you know that this tiny nation of under 2 million is probably the most advanced in Africa in crime scene investigation, with police from all over the continent sent there for training ? And the United States has one of only four international police academies based there. Yet, at the same time, traditional beliefs, such as witchcraft and the power of curses, persist ; senior police officers are also cattle farmers; and the head of the police training college sees herself as a real-life Mma Ramotswe. The former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Affairs Correspondent, Professor Jon Silverman, has travelled to Botswana to unravel these contradictions and finds that truth is at least as strange as fiction. Producer: Vera Frankl A IGA Production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.