The people of the Kalahari Desert

A detailed Summary of The people of the Kalahari Desert

Introduction, Location and Environment

The people of the Kalahari desert are extraordinary people. For centuries their hunting and food gathering

techniques have enabled them to survive in the difficult environment of the dry, hot and barren Kalahari desert.

They are known as the Bushmen. Or the Kung or the Gikwe since Bushmen is rather discriminating because the

"Bushmen" live among shrubs and trees and sand and such.

The people of Kalahari Desert live in a dry bush desert in South-West Africa and western Bechuanaland, bordered in

the North by Lake Ngami and the Okovngo River in the South by the Orange river and west by the Damera Hills.

The Kalahari is there all low with sand dunes and great plains. A hostile country of thirst and heat. A country with

scorpions, thorny bushes and of course sand as far as the eye can see and perpetual dust.

In the hot months it the temperature goes up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. In the months of winter, which are June and

July, the winds from the Antarctic cold blow at night. But during the day it eventually rises up to around 80 degrees

Fahrenheit and drops down in the evening. There are only three months of winter and these begi

of the Bantu and the Whites. Then after that obstacle maybe, just maybe they shall live on as a permanent culture

gardenias. There are tall grasses. There are bushes flowering either red, white or violet flowers, tsama melons which

gemsbok, antelopes, steenbok, porcupines, elands, small animals like the mongoose and the chicken fowl, birds-

to the marrow inside the bones. Of course this might seem like a lot a meat since the game is plentiful but really 80

necessary. No modern technology needed. Only simple handmade tools and weapons such as digging sticks, little

These people look out for one another. They take care of everybody. No one is left out to die. Children grow up at

It is not dead, the desert. There are boabab trees that give pear shaped fruits, flowers, and blossoms resembling

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