These remains and artifacts are part of Africa. Soldiers in white gloves carried the coffin and serenaded it with their bugles. And the crowd sang mournful hymns, their voices rising and falling in the morning still. The grave site in Tsholofelo Park, Gaborone, lies on the north side of the city. The grave is marked on the grass simply by four white posts linked by chains.
People come at weekend to see the grave.
Some throw a coin on it, to wish El Negro a peaceful rest at last. It has been suggested that the park should re-named after El Negro. If you look back at the city centre from Tsholofelo Park, and indeed if you look towards Gaborone from the Airport and the north, you see the Kgale Hills in the background. For many years people have remarked on the odd shape of the hills in that profile, like a face staring upwards out of the Earth. A forehead on the right, a nose in the middle, and a chin on the left.