DNA studies of the Bushmen date to over 22, 000 years. Somehow, this culture found a balance between sustainability, their environment, hunting, gathering and living, that made them unbelievably ...

“When I am no longer here, and I die, I want it to be known in my language that this was our land” Nǀuu speaking elder Anna Kassie, during the ǂKhomani land claim restitution ceremony, 1999 The ...

The genocide of Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama people by German colonial forces (1904-1907) is widely documented. But much less is made of what came next – the genocide of the country’s Bushmen, also ...

While English, spread across many continents, is experiencing transformations in various forms, every 14 days a local language in the world dies. It is estimated that even seven thousand languages ...

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FOR a “simple country bwoy” from Lyssons, St Thomas, Bushman found Kingston a tough place to be in 1994. The following year the singer recorded a song inspired by the bloodshed he witnessed in the ...

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.

The president's announcement came in the same week as the Botswana government allowed the Bushmen to bury Pitseng Gaoberekwe who died in December 2021 on the group's ancestral land, ending a drawn-out ...

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 ...