Botswana Bushmen give lectures and address world media during UK tour
Bushmen representatives Roy Sesana and Jumanda Gakelebone spoke to packed crowds during their recently-ended UK tour, and gave a lecture at the Royal Society of Arts.
Bushmen representatives Roy Sesana and Jumanda Gakelebone spoke to packed crowds during their recently-ended UK tour, and gave a lecture at the Royal Society of Arts.
Two Kalahari Bushmen are making a dramatic journey to Britain on an urgent mission to save their people from extinction. The two leaders will be in London from 29 September to 5 October.
Botswana's High Court has heard the first Bushman witnesses in their case against the government tell their harrowing stories of eviction from their ancestral land.
A report on human rights released earlier this year by the US government says that the Botswana government 'forcibly resettled' the Bushmen from their ancestral land.
Outsiders are invading the reserve of the isolated Jarawa tribe in the Andaman Islands, India, and stealing the game on which they depend for food. There are also increasing reports of Jarawa women being sexually exploited.
Launching a month-long tour of the USA, two Kalahari Bushmen are to visit Hollywood with Amnesty International. Roy Sesana and Jumanda Gakelebone will attend an event in Beverly Hills on 27 August hosted by singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
Botswana's President this week handed out blankets and sweets to Bushmen in a relocation centre. His action comes in the middle of a court case in which the Bushmen are suing his government for the right to return to their ancestral land.
Remote hunter-gatherer tribes have issued a plea to the outside world to mark the UN Day of Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, saying, 'We are not backward, our way of life is as modern as yours'.