A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.
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Germany’s genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama has been well documented, but the massacre of the Bushmen from 1912 to 1915 is seldom discussed.
Some explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks. The truth behind the paintings is far more interesting.
A new exhibition in Johannesburg focuses on the beliefs and paintings of the San people.
Runaway slaves joined indigenous Khoe-San people and raided colonial farms. The rock art they left in their hideouts tells a fascinating story.
Contrary to the colonial view, Bushmen of southern Africa had a complex and meaningful practice of dress.
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