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Bushmen

  1. The nomadic hunting and gathering peoples of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa , in Botswana , Namibia , and Angola . ( See hunting and gathering societies and nomadism .)


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Her latest book, When Tears Don’t Matter, portrays the lives of the remaining bushmen in the Kalahari in eastern Namibia, who eke out a living amid the daunting demands of nature.

The men always carry spears or bows to defend themselves against “bushmen”— the vicious, atavistic descendants of criminals and beggars — or even occasional marauders from Wales and Ireland.

"It's a song that's close to our heart, I'm telling the people how the bushmen were hunted by the colonialists, how we are living, how we are still struggling."

From BBC

I also visit a small tribe of bushmen in Namibia.

Ostriches, toxic plants and gases have also been put forward as explanations for the circles, which local Himba bushmen in the Namib desert saw as footprints of the gods.

From BBC

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