The high profile Bushman activist Jumanda Gakelebone was arrested and held overnight while travelling through his homeland in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve over the weekend. The arrest left ...

Botswana’s new president has promised to restore some rights, which were taken away from the Bushmen, an indigenous tribe of hunters and gatherers found across southern Africa. This week, the ...

ALTHOUGH the actual text of this book comprises only 14 pages, a great deal of reliable and interesting information is given on the physical characters and culture of the Bushman tribes. This ...

Africa’s Bushman tribes roam. Naturally, they carry their babies. They carry them as far as 5,000 miles before said babies learn to walk. That’s a lot of baby carrying. A solitary Norwegian spruce ...

METSIAMANONG, Botswana — When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as if he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, never traveled by ...

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ALTHOUGH the School of African Life and Language has been established in South Africa for a few years only, it has already accomplished much useful work in research. It has now turned to publication.