Geometry.Net - Basic_B: Botswana Culture

Botswana Photos 17
fires and for warming fires. The use of fire for social gatheringsis an important part of botswana culture. Photo by Susan Ross.
http://www.peacegallery.org/africa/botswana/botswana17.htm

Extractions: Togo Odi Village, June 1995: This weaver is telling the story of the gathering and drying of thatch. Thatch harvested from palms and other native plants provides the roofs for many rondavals (round dwellings within a living compound). The thatching process is a very important task of village life and involves both the men and the women. This weaving also shows firewood that has been gathered from the communal lands outside of the village. It will be used by this family for cooking fires and for warming fires. The use of fire for social gatherings is an important part of Botswana culture. Photo by Susan Ross.
From The Director
to take pride in watching a television screen that reflects the people they know,the thing of familiar salience, the depiction of botswana culture in its
http://www.btv.gov.bw/btv/from_the_director.html

Extractions: Although Government owned, Botswana Television operates in accordance with the conventional norms of a public service broadcasting organization. BTV enjoys a reasonable degree of editorial independence that allows it to portray Botswana's political and socio-economic fabric as it is. Programming is based on and aims at reflecting the democratic tradition of Botswana by adhering to the principle of balanced reporting, showing both sides of the story and adhering to objectivity. As part of the Department of Information and Broadcasting (an organization that runs two radio channels, one of which is commercial whilst the other is designed for public service broadcasting), Botswana Television adheres to the country's national Vision 2016. The first pillar of Vision 2016- "Building an Informed, Educated Nation" is no less than the mandate of the Department and willy-nilly, that of BTV. As Director of the Department of Information and Broadcasting, and consequently, overall director of BTV services, I pledge to pursue the Departmental Vision that is: "TO BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF PROVIDING QUALITY INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF BOTSWANA AND BEYOND."
Untitled
Benin Practical Info Benin Geography Benin Culture Benin History Benin OverviewBotswana Practical Info Botswana Geography botswana culture Botswana History
http://www.travelwizard.com/site_index.html
Religious Studies Student Profiles
This will help me to investigate important elements of human experienceof youth in botswana culture. I also hope to explore teaching
http://www.studyoverseas.com/re/profiles.htm

Extractions: I am one of John's research students, and studying how to do R.E in the Christian secondary schools in Korea. This is a time of rapid transition in Korean education. The competition and one-dimensional values of modern and industrial life are creating a sense of passivity and hopelessness in the minds of many students. I am trying to develop a religious education curriculum for the Christian secondary schools which will help to bring students into a greater sense of their own creative powers. Studying this with John has a lot of advantages because of his professional knowledge and his sympathetic understanding of the situation. Tebogo Ethel Seretse
Empowering Families For The New Millennium: Perspectives, Challenges And Strateg
HALF DAY SIGHT SEEING. This provides participants with an opportunityto mingle with Batswana and experience botswana culture.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/NU/jfn/conference.htm

Extractions: E-mail: mogobekd@mopipi.ub.bw The Department of Nursing Education at the University of Botswana provides colleagues with an opportunity to network, exchange ideas and learn about the latest developments in family nursing research, education, practice and education To be announced REGISTRATION EARLY BIRD - Before January 31 2003 US$400.00 LATE REGISTRATION - After January 31 2003 US$450.00 ON SITE REGISTRATIONUS
MapZones.com Culture
botswana, culture, Back to Top. Western dress has been general among peoplein botswana, except at the poorest level, since the late 19th century.
http://www.mapzones.com/world/africa/botswana/cultureindex.php

Extractions: Country Info Botswana Introduction Botswana General Data Botswana Maps Botswana Culture ... Botswana Time and Date Botswana Culture Back to Top Western dress has been general among people in Botswana, except at the poorest level, since the late 19th century. Common diet and cuisine consist of sorghum and corn porridge, beans and pulses and traditional spinach, supplemented by tomato, potato, onion, and cabbage usually purchased from stores. Meat consumption has become more common with the opening of small butcheries selling beef. Traditional foods include dried phane caterpillars from mopane woodland, eaten as relish or snacks, fruits such as the wild morulaplum, and beer made from sorghum or millet. Families in rural villages live in traditional compounds, usually with two or three small houses of cylindrical clay walls and conical thatch roofs, set around an open fireplace and surrounded by low clay walls. Most recent houses are square with metal roofs, while many houses in the northwest are made of reed. Egypt Maps
Olifants T&S - Safaris Nach Botswana: Outdoor Und Trekking, Botswana Culture
botswana culture. 4tägige Zeltsafari im Okavango Delta ab und bis Maun
http://www.olifants.de/16%20Botswana%20Culture.htm

Extractions: Botswana ... Culture 4-tägige Zeltsafari im Okavango Delta ab und bis Maun Lake Ngami - Etsha im West Panhandle - Tsodilo Hills Eine Reise, die Ihnen neben der einmaligen Landschaft und Tierwelt, die Geschichte und Kultur der Menschen dieses Landes näher bringt. Es werden verschiedene Dörfer (keine Touristendörfer) besucht. Höhepunkt ist eine Natur- und Wildpirschwanderung im Okavango Delta. Stationen der Reise sind Lake Ngami, Etsha im West Panhandle und Tsodilo Hills, die abgelegene, heilige Kultstätte der San mit mehr als 3.500 Buschmannzeichnungen. Termine: Termine auf Anfrage
Botswana -- Culture Overview
botswana culture Overview. The nation of botswana occupies largetracts of desert that have been crossed by many African peoples.
http://expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us/Africa/Botswana/culture.htm

Extractions: Botswana - Culture Overview The nation of Botswana occupies large tracts of desert that have been crossed by many African peoples. Inhabited by the San since prehistoric times, the area also became the site of towns organized around Tswana chieftaincies. Though many of these towns were militarily powerful, they were open to the influence of Christian missionaries who came mostly from Great Britain. Though Bechuanaland, as it was then known, became a British protectorate in the 19th century, official interest was never great and the local peoples remained in control of most social and cultural developments. The Setswana word for the most important social grouping is morafe, meaning the people who give allegiance to a certain chief. There are eight morafes in Botswana: the Bangwato, Bakwena, Bangwaketse, Batawana, Bakgatla, Bamalete, Barolong, and Batlokwa. The chiefs of all eight groupings are from the Tswana ethnic group, but the people of the morafes include other such ethnicities as Kalanga, Kgalagadi, Herero, Mbukushu, Subiya, Yei, and Ndebele, all of which are Bantu. Thus, ethnicity and social groups are not the same. There are also San groups and small minorities of European and Asian descent. English is the official language, but Setswana is the national language. Although Christianity has become familiar to many Batswana, traditional animist beliefs remain important both for respecting ancestors and for rain-making ceremonies that remain important in this desert nation.
Customs And Religion - Culture And History - Tourism Of Botswana
Official web site for Tourism of botswana. aspect of culture, which has perhaps best survived the onslaught of western influences in botswana. Both traditional
http://www.gov.bw/tourism/culture_and_his/customs.html

Extractions: Tswana " kgotla " in session It is largely the culture of the Batswana that has dominated that of other minority groups. This is particularly evident with regard to cattle ownership. Cattle, the traditional Tswana source of wealth and status, are now desired by most, if not all groups of people in Botswana. But this exchange of cultural values has not been a one-way affair: minority groups have influenced and contributed to the dominant culture in numerous ways - in Ngamiland, for example, the Bayei fishing methods were adopted by the ruling Batawana. Recent years have seen the introduction of western culture in the form of western business, technology, consumer goods, tourism and the media. There is a rather circuitous route, which all this takes to get to Botswana. South Africa, heavily influenced by America, Europe and Japan, acquires the latest goods and media items from these countries first; Botswana, in turn, imports nearly all commodities from South Africa. Botswana can well afford to buy in such goods, but personal wealth on the scale that exists for the elite few in Botswana is a new phenomenon. Life in the urban areas has been most affected by western culture and increasing modernity. In the rural areas many traditions persist and ways of life differ from region to region. Some of the more obvious physical aspects of the different cultures have disappeared (such as traditional clothing, arts and crafts, most ritual ceremonies and some tools and utensils). Others remain important, however, such as cattle ownership, music and dance and the consultation of traditional healers.
Botswana History Page 4: Culture
The dominant national culture of botswana today reflects the dual heritageand intermingling of Tswana and English cultural dominions.
http://ubh.tripod.com/bw/bhp4.htm

Extractions: Get Five DVDs for $.49 each. Join now. Tell me when this page is updated This is a mirror site for www.thuto.org/ubh . If you have any problems, try the main site. (For this page see http://www.thuto.org/ubh/bw/bhp4.htm Botswana History Pages, by Neil Parsons To Index To end of page Back to History Home Page 1: Brief History of Botswana ... Culture Links Notes and Comments Provisional version by Neil Parsons April 1999 It is a truism to say that all countries are multicultural but at the same time are linked to globalized culture. But the recognition of multiculturalism in Botswana has been blocked, until the later 1990s, by the need to develop a unifying national culture. That national culture is based largely upon Setswana (Tswana language) culture. It represents the growth of a distinct Botswana nationality defined within state borders, and embraces elements of postcolonial English culture. Tswana national culture can be traced back to the incorporation of diverse peoples under a string of Tswana states, beginning in the later 18th century and reaching maturity by the time of British colonization at the end of the 19th century. The Tswana states, linked by the the kinship ties of their rulers speaking linked dialects of a common language, were brought together in allianceagainst common enemies between the 1850s and the 1890s. Such'tribal' federalism continued into the colonial period. Everyone within the colonial boundaries of Botswana came to be regarded as a Motswana, regardless of ethnic origin. Hence many outsiders assumed that Botswana was a monocultural entity with only one 'tribe'. But it was not until the end of colonialism that the old Tswana states were incorporated into a unitary state, under a powerful central government, between 1964 and 1969.
Directory Index
botswana history culture. No description. Headings 3 Archaeology Notes and Comments ArchaeologyLinks botswana History Page 4 culture.
http://ubh.tripod.com/bw/

Extractions: Get Five DVDs for $.49 each. Join now. Tell me when this page is updated This is a mirror site for www.thuto.org/ubh . If you have any problems, try the main site. Total of 29 HTML files found. Directories Back to contents Botswana History Page 1: Brief History of Botswana Botswana History Page 10: Politics Botswana History Page 11: Religion Botswana History Page 12: Science ... Description: Brief history of Botswana, by Prof. Neil Parsons, University of Botswana History Department Headings:
Culture
culture. botswana's early tribal religions were primarily cults in which ancestorsdirected family matters from their underworld domain and were contactable
http://www.namasthenri.com/botswana/culture.html

Extractions: CULTURE Home AboutUs ContactUs Profile ... High Commission Botswana's early tribal religions were primarily cults in which ancestors directed family matters from their underworld domain and were contactable only through the heads of family groups. Religious rites included male and female initiation ceremonies and rain-making rituals. Polygamy was practised, and a man's estate was inherited by the children of his head wife. San folklore is rich with supernatural explanations of natural events, orchestrated by N!odima, the good guy, and Gcawama, the mischievous trickster. Missionaries dislodged nearly all the traditional practices, and Christianity is currently the prevailing belief system in Botswana. English is the official language of Botswana, but the most common language is Setswana, a Bantu language understood by over 90% of the population. The original Botswana artists were everyday craftspeople who injected individual aesthetics into utilitarian implements such as pottery, fabrics and tools. Botswana's baskets are exquisite, employing designs with such evocative names as Tears of the Giraffe, Urine Trail of the Bull and Forehead of the Zebra. Because indigenous languages have only been written since the coming of the Christian missionaries, Botswana doesn't have much of a literary tradition. All that survives of the ancient myths and praise poetry of the native peoples has been handed down orally and only recently transcribed. Botswana's most famous modern literary figure was South African-born Bessie Head, who settled in Serowe and wrote of the harshness and beauty of village life.
Culture And History - Culture Botswana
botswana culture and History - culture Links, Travel Informationand Resources. botswana. botswana culture and History - culture.
http://www.kasbah.com/vitalstats/culture_and_history/culture/botswana_botswana_1
EMBASSY OF BOTSWANA WEBSITE,. JAPAN
As in many countries, urbanisation and exposure to other cultureshave greatly influenced botswana's culture. Many key features
http://www.botswanaembassy.or.jp/culture/body1.html

Extractions: Botswana is populated by no less than 20 different tribes with some originating from the neighbouring countries of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola and Namibia, giving the country a rich diversity of cultures. It is therefore not easy to make a comprehensive description of the cultures of all these tribes within the limited scope of the web-site. There are, however, common cultural features and practices, particularly amongst the tribes of "Tswana" origin, which have a common ancestry. As in many countries, urbanisation and exposure to other cultures have greatly influenced Botswana's culture. Many key features of Botswana's culture have, however, survived negative influences. In some instances, cultural practices which clashed with the objectives of colonial administrators were either suppressed or significantly curtailed. In order to fully understand a people's culture and traditions, it is necessary to look into their past to gain insight into their present "ways of doing things". It is in the latter context that some of the tribal ceremonies and practices, which are no longer widely practised in Botswana, have been included. Such practices were, after-all, based on fundamental values which, to this day, still hold Botswana society together.
EMBASSY OF BOTSWANA WEBSITE,. JAPAN
http://www.botswanaembassy.or.jp/culture/index1.html
Collectif Asah : Ressources : ASAH > RESSOURCES PAR PAYS > Afrique > Botswana >
PAR PAYS Afrique botswana culture générale . Niveau Supérieur.
http://www.collectif-asah.org/ressources.php?node=2636&
MapZones.com : Botswana
botswana Map, History, culture, People, Population, Climate, Economy, Animal andplants, Languages,capital, island, major city, province, Communications,State
http://atlas.freegk.com/world/africa/botswana/botswana.php

Extractions: Country Info Botswana Introduction Botswana General Data Botswana Maps Botswana Culture ... Botswana Time and Date Botswana Introduction Back to Top Republic of Botswana, formerly Bechuanaland, country in the centre of southern Africa. It has an area of 224,607 square miles (581,730 square kilometres). The territory is roughly square approximately 600 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west with its eastern side protruding into a sharp point. Its eastern and southern borders are marked by river courses and an old wagon road; its western borders are lines of longitude and latitude through the Kalahari, and its northern borders combine straight lines with a river course. The capital is Gaborone (until 1969 spelled Gaberones i.e., Gaborone's town), a new city founded in 1964. Official Name- Republic of Botswana
1Up Travel > History And Culture Of Botswana.
HISTORY culture. PEOPLE AND HISTORY. The Batswana, a term also used to denote allcitizens of botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group (the Tswana
http://www.1uptravel.com/international/africa/botswana/history-culture.html

Extractions: Travel Reservations and Bookings More Categories Introduction Topography Local Life Local Cuisine Local Holidays Festivals-Events Embassies Administration News Stand Worth a See !! Sight Seeing Maps Flags Shopping Eating Out Recreation Travel Essentials Country Facts Geography People Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Search 1Up Travel PEOPLE AND HISTORY The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group (the "Tswana" in South Africa), which came into the area from South Africa during the Zulu wars of the early 1880s. Prior to European contact, the Batswana lived as herders and farmers under tribal rule. In the late 19th century, hostilities broke out between the Batswana and Boer settlers from the Transvaal. After appeals by the Batswana for assistance, the British Government in 1885 put "Bechuanaland" under its protection. The northern territory remained under direct administration and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.
1Up Travel > Botswana > Travel & Tourism | Tourist Guide To Botswana
topography of botswana. History of botswana Presents a detailed historicalbackground and culture of botswana. Local Life People
http://www.1uptravel.com/international/africa/botswana/

Extractions: Travel Reservations and Bookings More Categories Introduction Topography Local Life Local Cuisine Local Holidays Festivals-Events Embassies Administration News Stand Worth a See !! Sight Seeing Maps Flags Shopping Eating Out Recreation Travel Essentials Country Facts Geography People Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Search 1Up Travel
Culture And History - Tourism Of Botswana
language and share the SothoTswana culture, while in its common contemporary usage,it refers to all citizens of the Republic of botswana, regardless of their
http://www.gov.bw/tourism/culture_and_his/culture_and_his.html

Extractions: The history of Botswana is characterised by migrations of peoples into the country from the north and west and particularly from the east and south, as well as internal movements of groups of people. The group which eventually emerged as most numerous, and dominant, were the Batswana . Their pattern of dividing and migrating saw the formation of numerous Tswana tribes, and their eventual occupation of all areas of the country. The term " Batswana " refers to the ethnic group of people who speak the Setswana language and share the Sotho-Tswana culture, while in its common contemporary usage, it refers to all citizens of the Republic of Botswana , regardless of their ethnic background. The singular is " Motswana ": a citizen of the country. " Tswana " is used as an adjective - for example " Tswana state " or "

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

21-40 of 94 Back | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next 20