Set in the Chobe Distrcit, the book A New Start: The Infamous HIV/AIDS Play by Kamwi Mike Nkomba was written to warn people, especially teenagers, about the dangers of the HIV/AIDS scourge. Most of the characters in the book bear Sesobea names and the story revolves around school-going teenagers Ntukwa, Manga, Matengu and Lumba. Ntukwa dominates the play and the young man perceives himself as the village hunk ... Manga, a newcomer at Munitenge School of Thoughts in the Itenge District, thinks there is nothing wrong in cheating on her boyfriend, a student at Kitso Academy in Borwa District with the cute Ntukwa, resulting in disastrous consequences ... At the end of the first day of the term at school, the boys (Ntukwa and Matengu) convince the girls (Manga and Lumba) to go to the river passing through a thick bush where things start taking another turn. At first, the village elder, Mr Sankwasa, who is fishing by the river, spots them ...  The next day, the dejected Ntukwa and Manga are relieved when Chiswaniso advises the duo that the former tested negative for HIV/AIDS and issues a warning from which the author derived his title, "What's there is for you to make a new start with your lives today and make sure you protect yourselves." ... A New Start is 29-year-old Nkomba's debut book and despite a few minor flaws here and there, it successfully sends a strong message to Batswana: BEWARE OF HIV/AIDS. Nkomba, who is a temporary Mathematics lecturer at Chobe Brigades Development Trust near Kasane, graduated as a teacher from the University of Botswana (UB) ...