Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In a hut in north-east Namibia, on the shoulder of the Caprivi Strip, a king negotiates. From Pringle socks to flat ...

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 ...

Sandy Gall describes the genocide the Botswanan government is waging to clear the Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve On the sideboard in my dining room in Kent there is a small bowl of ...

THE village of Kaudwane may be less than 300km (186 miles) from Botswana's capital, but it is a world apart from Gaborone's smart buildings and new malls. Scrawny cows roam the sandy roadside, chewing ...

Before Africa's colonisation, the Bushmen population in the south of the continent numbered in the millions. Today the figure is 80,000. Two-thirds of the Bushmen who remain are based in Botswana ...

Maun - About 100 000 Bushmen remain in southern Africa. Most of them live in Botswana (50 000) and Namibia (38 000). They are also known by other names, such as San, Basarwa or Kua. Many of them like ...

An elderly woman slowly looks around her new farmland, her wrinkled face lighting up with a shy little smile as suddenly she claps her hands. “Our ancestors are happy that we are closer to home now, I ...

Being responsible for providing their food straight from nature, the San tribes, also called Bushmen, have quickly found ways to evolve their hunting methods. It is assumed that it did not take long ...