Staff Profiles

PhD in Anthropology, Leiden University, December 2017

M.Ed (Research and Evaluation, University of Botswana, 2016

MA (Theology and Religious Studies), University of Botswana, 2004

Post Graduate Diploma In Education, University of Botswana, 1998

BA Humanities, University of Botswana, 1997

Dr. Senzokuhle Doreen Setume, a Botswana Qualifications Authority certified Assessor and Moderator  is a lecturer at the University of Botswana, Faculty of Humanities in the the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Her teaching profession started in 1997 as a teacher of Religious Education in different government secondary schools until 2005 when she joined Tonota and later Molepolole Colleges of Education as a lecturer of Religious Education. In March 2014 Dr Setume joined the University of Botswana as a lecturer where she has taught a number of courses such as African traditional religions, Religions of Botswana, Religion and Science, Research methodology. She has supervised research at post graduate level.  Dr Setume has presented papers at local, regional and international conferences. She has published journal articles and book chapters.  She has also carried out field research 

African Traditional Religions 

Religions of Botswana

Religion and Science

Research methods at undergraduate and graduate level

Cohabitation and methodological nuptialism

Knowledge, attitudes and life skills among secondary school students

Marital status and HIV and AIDS

Religion and disability

gender and religion

Areas of interests;

• Rites of passage and rituals in African Traditional Religions
• Teenage pregnancy, culture and the rites of the girls child
• sacredness of sacred places in the contemporary Botswana 

Religious Rituals

Gender and Religion

Setume, S.D. (2020) Portrayal of Disability in Secondary School Religious Education Textbooks in Botswana, in Manze, J.N & Nkomazana F. Disability is not Inability, p.397-414

Setume, S.D. (2018). HIV and AIDS: Knowledge and attitudes among form three Junior Secondary School students in Kweneng and Central districts. BOLESWA Journal of  Theology, Religion and Philosophy (BJTRP), 5 (1) 119-133

Setume, S.D. et al (2017). Exploring the concept of botho/ubuntu through bridal showers in the urban space, Gaborone, Botswana. Managing development in Africa 2 (3)173-191

Setume, S.D.  (2016) Myths and beliefs about disabilities: Implications for educators and counselors. Journal of Disabilities and Religion 20 (1-2), 62-76

Setume, S.D. (2016).  African Traditional religions and disability in Kabue, S., Amanze, J & Landman, C. Disability in Africa: Resource Book for Theology and Religious Studies, p11-29. Nairobi, Action Publishers.