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 Bushman, or Masarwa, which, as Head explains in Maru, is the same as saying "nigger"—it's "a term of contempt which means, obliquely, a low, filthy nation"—are actually at the top, and we all fall ...

Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Farai Chideya speak in depth about the deadly relationship between HIV and Malaria in Africa. I'm Farai Chideya, and this is NEWS & NOTES. In this week's Africa Update, a ...

Old times -- The rewards of hard work -- The mother hill -- A beachside brawl -- The settlers -- Living in the moment -- Tsumkwe Road -- The provident environment -- The hollow tree -- Strong food -- ...

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 ...

STAUNTON — Three West African bushmen recruited to build an authentic mud-hut village at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia were denied visas because they are too poor and inarticulate. In a ...

The Bushman dance is traditionally an all-night communal event. All members of the community are welcome, women, men, and children. The dance begins with a group of women who sit in a circle, and sing ...

STAUNTON — Three West African bushmen recruited to build an authentic mud-hut village at the Frontier Culture Museum were denied visas because they are too poor and inarticulate. In a letter to Sen.

This jewel of experimental cinema tells the story of an educated Nigerian in San Francisco at the height of the Black Panther movement. Never shown in cinemas at the time of its release in 1971, the ...

It is rare that a book blasts me with wisdom as forcefully as the one I read last week: Way of the Bushman as Told by the Tribal Elders: Spiritual Teachings and Practices of the Kalahari Ju|hoansi. I ...