ACCRA, GHANA — In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the nation’s government had acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen from the Central ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...