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Besides referring to the language of the dominant people groups in Botswana, Setswana is the adjective used to describe the rich cultural traditions of the Batswana - whether construed as members of the Tswana ethnic groups or of all citizens of Botswana. Tswana, also known as Setswana, is a Bantu language. ...
TSWANA (singular Motswana, plural Batswana) is the name of a Southern African people, and of its Bantu language. ...
Tswana (Motswana, plural Batswana) is the name of a Southern African people. ...
Writers Caitlin Davies is an author born in England in 1964. ...
Unity Dow (born 1959) is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. ...
Bessie Head is usually considered Botswanas most important writer. ...
Moteane Melamu is a writer and academic from Botswana. ...
Barolong Seboni(born 1957) is a poet and academic from Botswana. ...
Andrew Sesinyi is the Botswanan author of Love on the Rocks(1983). ...
Botswana in literature Bessie Head is usually considered Botswana's most important writer, she fled the apartheid regime in South Africa to live in and write about Botswana. She lived there from 1964 (when it was still the Bechuanaland Protectorate) until her death at the age of 49 in 1986. She lived in Serowe, and her most famous books, When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, and A Question of Power are set therBotswana forms the setting for a series of popular mystery novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Their protagonist, Precious Ramotswe, lives in Gaborone. The first novel in the series, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency appeared in 1998 in the UK (and 2001 in the US). The light-hearted books are appreciated for their human interest and local colour. Bessie Head is usually considered Botswanas most important writer. ...
Serowe (population approx. ...
Alexander (R.A.) Sandy McCall Smith (1948 -) is a writer and emeritus professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh. ...
Precious Ramotswe is the fictional central character in The No. ...
The No. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
Norman Rush, who served as a Peace Corps director in Botswana from 1978 to 1983, uses the country as the setting of all of his published books, which generally focus on the expatriate community. Norman Rush (born October 24, 1933) is an American novelist. ...
Peace Corps volunteers usually serve for two years. ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Unity Dow (born 1959) is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. She came from a rural background that tended toward traditional values of the African kind. Her mother could not read English, and in most cases decision-making was done by men. She went on to become a lawyer with much of her education being done in the West. Her Western education caused a mixture of respect and suspicion. Unity Dow (born 1959) is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. ...
As a lawyer she earned acclaim most for her stances on women's rights. She was the plaintiff in a case that allowed the children of women by foreign nationals to be considered Batswana. The tradition and law before this stated nationality only descended from the father. She later became Botswana's first female High Court judge. TSWANA (singular Motswana, plural Batswana) is the name of a Southern African people, and of its Bantu language. ...
As a novelist she has had three books. These books often concern the issues concerning the struggle between Western and traditional values. They also involve her interest in gender issues and her nation's poverty.
Visual arts In the northern part of Botswana, women in the villages of Etsha and Gumare are noted for their skill at crafting baskets from Mokola Palm and local dyes. The baskets are generally woven into three types: large, lidded baskets used for storage large, open baskets for carrying objects on the head or for winnowing threshed grain, and smaller plates for winnowing pounded grain. The artistry of these baskets is being steadily enhanced through color use and improved designs as they are increasingly produced for commercial use. Gumare is a town located in the North-West District of Botswana. ...
Four styles of household basket. ...
Yarn drying after being dyed in the early American tradition, at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...
Other notable artistic communities include Thamaga Pottery and Oodi Weavers, both located in the southeastern part of Botswana.
The oldest paintings from both Botswana and South Africa depict hunting, both animal and human figures, and were made by the Khoisan (Kung San!/Bushmen) over 20,000 years ago within the Kalahari desert. Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are biologically classified as bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or thinking man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ...
The Bushmen (also known as Khwe Khoe, Basarwa, or San) peoples of South Africa and neighbouring Botswana and Namibia, who live in the Kalahari, are part of the Khoisan group and are related to the Khoikhoi. ...
The Kalahari Desert is a large, arid to semi-arid sandy area in southern Africa that covers about 500,000 km². It covers 70% of Botswana, and parts of Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. ...
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