Bushmen

1. The nomadic hunting and gathering peoples of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. (See hunting and gathering societies and nomadism.)

Example Sentences

But she soon turned her attention to music, learning piano, bass guitar and drums; and making occasional appearances with her dad's band, Urban Bushmen, as a singer.

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He said states shouldn’t be forced to redefine “a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs.”

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The term “Bushmen” has a fraught history and is sometimes considered a pejorative, but there is no other collective name for the diverse tribes that make up the region’s first people.

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Much of that region is now a dry salt pan—and inhabited by modern Khoisan people sometimes called Bushmen.

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Sacks thought of the people who, thousands of years ago, had painted it: the so-called Bushmen, whose descendants, during the colonial era, were driven into the Kalahari Desert and often killed.

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