The San make up a small percentage of Southern Africa’s diverse ethnic groups. With only about 100,000 left, most of them live in Namibia and Botswana with the town of Tsumkwe falling somewhere in the middle. They have been the focus of Richard Lee’s research since the 1960s; however, most of the world was exposed to the San, or Bushmen, when the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy came out in the early 80s. They’re not the same loincloth-wearing people that were portrayed in the film, but they still hold onto a lot of the hunter-gatherer culture that came to define them. Unfortunately they remain rather marginalized and poor, struggling to find a place in modern African society.
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