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 Bushmen of southern Africa are indigenous people who have lived in an egalitarian, mostly technology-free society for millennia. (James Suzman Photo) Many people nowadays are concerned about the ...

A team of Stanford University scientists, using the largest-ever genetic analysis of remote tribal people, has determined that the human family tree is rooted in one of the world’s most marginal and ...

THE village of Kaudwane may be less than 300km (186 miles) from Botswana's capital, but it is a world apart from Gaborone's smart buildings and new malls. Scrawny cows roam the sandy roadside, chewing ...

ACCRA, GHANA — In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the nation’s government had acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen from the Central ...

Botswana’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that more than 1,000 Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari desert and should be allowed to return. Subscribe to read ...

It’s early afternoon in this Bushmen settlement in the Kalahari desert and everyone is drunk. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

METSIMANONG, Botswana – Here, deep in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, life has never been easy. Rainfall is scarce in the landscape of dry riverbeds, salt flats and barren plains. The days come to ...

An archbishop and four Bushmen walk into a lab. What emerges is no joke, but a more complete picture of human genetic diversity than ever seen before. This new study of five Africans has identified ...

Rachel Newcomb is an anthropologist and the Diane and Michael Maher Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning at Rollins College. She is the author of “Everyday Life in Global Morocco,” due out ...