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Khoekhoe

2000 BC – 1884
CultureAfrica

Pastoralist Khoe-speaking peoples of the Cape and the arid west (Nama, Korana, Griqua and related groups) distinct from the Bantu-speaking farming societies further east and north; herded livestock across the winter-rainfall Cape and the Namib/Kalahari margins from roughly 2,000 years ago, encountered and displaced by Dutch/British colonization from 1652.

Not an ending: Khoekhoe descendants — Nama, Griqua and kin — endure in Namibia and South Africa. The map hands off to the modern states.

Borders in 2000 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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