In memory of Elsie Vaalbooi, Hugh Brody

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0000

A century-old woman died two months ago near the South Africa–Namibia border. Her knowledge of N|u, a rare language of the southern Kalahari, was a key element in the campaign by the Bushmen/San people to recover their ancestral lands. In paying her warm tribute in his first From the edge column, Hugh Brody sees her life as a window on to key contemporary questions of identity, history, and belonging. Read the rest of this post...

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In memory of Elsie Vaalbooi, Hugh Brody