The Bushmen of southern Africa are indigenous people who have lived in an egalitarian, mostly technology-free society for millennia. (James Suzman Photo) Many people nowadays are concerned about the ...
Over the past hundred years, around 20 million people have been ushered from their homelands due to conservation alone. Those displaced people are kicked off their ancestral lands, witness their homes ...
Within weeks of the court ruling, forty evicted Bushmen sneaked back into the Kalahari, ignoring President Mogae’s attempts to make them stay out. By April 2006, two hundred had returned. Despite dual ...
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 ...
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — Late at night in the Kalahari Desert, a little more than a decade ago, the clouds drew together like rippled crocodile skin, and the Bushmen, led by an old ...
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 ...
Rachel Newcomb is an anthropologist and the Diane and Michael Maher Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning at Rollins College. She is the author of “Everyday Life in Global Morocco,” due out ...
After human ancestors controlled fire 400,000 to 1 million years ago, flames not only let them cook food and fend off predators, but also extended their day. A University of Utah study of Africa's ...