The resource curse thesis generally considers the profusion of natural resources as an anti-thesis to development. This correlation is based on empińcal evidence from countries that are resource endowed (such as Angola , Nigeria , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Sierra Leone, and South Sudan) but have faulted in realizing economic development as they were and continue to be predisposed to unrelenting socio-economic and political ills than countries that are less endowed with natural resources (i.e Singapore). Yet, there are a few countries that are glutted with high value extractive resources but deviated in the way they used those resources. Botswana is one such a country that has demonstrated that ' the resource curse ' is avoidable. This paper argues that Botswana is a deviant case of success in the way it has managed its natural resources. Its deviance has become a conundrum for researchers and policy analysts who seek to understand how this was achieved. This paper seeks to explain why this was possible for Botswana when equally endowed countries faulted.

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