His people may have children and grandchildren in the camps, but that next generation, he says, won't be Bushmen. They'll be something else.

He reckons that there are about 100,000 Bushmen still left in southern Africa, half of them in Botswana and the Kalahari, where they are being steadily dispossessed by the government. (That figure ...

Saharan Vibe writes about the San, a term that refers to a diverse group of hunter-gatherers living in Southern Africa who share historical and linguistic connections, including several photos. Global ...

One went southeast, another northwest, and the third remained. The last became the San people of Botswana. Those who hold a very low opinion of their skin color and way of life call them Bushmen.

They roamed the savannahs and open plains for thousands of years, but the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of Southern Africa's San tribes is slowly being squeezed towards extinction. About 30 000 San ...

The Bushmen, whose unique spoken language includes a variety of tongue clicks, today number between 50,000 and 100,000 people, most of who live on the flat, dry and scrubby edge of the Kalahari ...

So the Stanford team expanded the collection, obtaining saliva specimens from 95 members of the Hadza and Sandawe tribes of Tanzania and the click-speaking Khomani Bushmen of South Africa.