Education and culture in Botswana

It is seldom in Botswana that voices from traditional San communities speak out about the education of their children. Mostly, formal schools are revered by the poor and illiterate as the place where their children will learn the skills they as parents feel they lack:...

The nature of San education

Acknowledging that education is not a new concept for the San, San parents, who are hunter-gatherers, share that there has been deep rooted change in the development of San education. They conclude that education for the San was, in the past, a sophisticated system of...

Food

These ground tubers are called #qo. You can only find them in some parts of Namibia and not all the San people know about them. Some see them but they do not eat them, for example people (!kung) from Tsumkwe West do not know anything about them and only people...

Meat makes us happy

The most crucial part of the San diet has always been meat. Meat was and is treated as the most important part of the meal. The San know that their food may not always include meat because they hunt during different seasons of the year. Meat is an integral part of...

Plants and nature

Plants have grown in the Kalahari since long before people were there. The San who were the hunter gatherers called bushmen were the first to experiment with the nature. The Bushmen were aware of their health and they started to do research on the plants. The only way...