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Rediscovering "darkest" Africa. (San people in Botswana)

From: The Humanist  |  Date: 1/1/1996  |  Author: Morain, Lloyd L.

A traveler on an expedition to the Kalahari in Botswana describes how the trip turned into a lesson in sociology. Blacks have taken over the regions where the migratory and self-reliant San lived, and other San were fragmented or killed.

Expeditions can sometimes take unexpected turns. Such was the case for me on a recent expedition to remote regions of the Kalahari in Botswana, a nation in the heartland of central southern Africa.

Anyone who has seen Jamie Uys' 1981 motion picture, The ...

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