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 ...

Ancient scriptures and modern westerns warn us of risks inherent to the desert. The Latin root of desert was originally equated with wilderness, a people-abandoned place of spiritual desolation. Out ...

In Africa, a court in Botswana rules the Bushmen of the Kalahari can stay on, or return to, their land. Also in Africa-related news, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan ends his tenure atop the ...

John Marshall and co-director Claire Ritchie's doc represents some five decades of work to produce a true record of the much-exploited Ju/'hoansi people of Namibia, more commonly known in the West as ...

With indigenous peoples' way of life already threatened by the construction boom, several non-governmental organisations say locals may not be able to tell the wood from the trees when accepting ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

Always on the hunt for a new diet remedy, Americans seem to be willing to do or swallow almost anything to lose weight. And their search can take them to unlikely places. For thousands of years, ...

The Pith: I review a recent paper which argues for a southern African origin of modern humanity. I argue that the statistical inference shouldn't be trusted as the final word. This paper reinforces ...