The Kalahari San practice the ritual of the trance dance as a direct communion to the spirit world, the souls of the Bushmen journeying through space and time to the world of the Ancients to gain ...

JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 10 -- All but a few of the Bushmen living in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been forcibly removed from their homes in recent days in what spokesmen for the affected ...

JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 13 -- A court in Botswana ruled Wednesday that the government was wrong to evict thousands of Bushmen from their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and should allow one of ...

The government of Botswana is relocating the last few dozen San Bushmen out of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. For more than 20,000 years, the San have lived in the region as hunter-gathers. The ...

The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert are being relocated by the government of Botswana from their ancestral lands in southern Africa to "resettlement" camps. The relocation coincides with the discovery ...

“Now up there in the sky, the people up there, the spirits, the dead people up there, they sang for me so I can dance.” Bushman Elder “Whereas I see those men unhappy and embittered, who after ...

In the Kalahari Desert, where the landscape stretches brown and dusty in every direction, water is power. So when the truckloads of men from the government rumbled up to this ancient Bushmen village ...

THERE is a vast sweep of dry bush desert lying in South-West Africa and western Bechuanaland, bordered in the north by Lake Ngami and the Okovango River, in the south by the Orange River, and in the ...

South African Bushman Izak Kruiper, traveling with his Kalahari counterparts to offer moral support, points out coyote tracks he spotted during a hike through the Santa Monica Mountains. Sesana slips ...

British actor Michael York narrates filmmaker Paula Ely's thought-provoking examination of the San people of southern Africa, a culture rooted in the Kalahari Desert that's survived for some 80,000 ...

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