Last Bushmen of Kalahari fight to go home; Ridiculed, relocated as Stone Age relics, the San hope their four-year court battle in Botswana will give them back their land
Roy Sesana sits in the back row of the dark-panelled room that houses Botswana's High Court, in this little town 70 kilometres from the capital. The courtroom has parquet floors and a row of judges in gowns and powdered wigs, a legacy of the country's British colonial history.
Mr. Sesana has come here almost every day that the court has been in session over the past four years, yet he could hardly look less at home. He wears a traditional headdress made of beads and the horns of a small antelope. His tea-coloured face is crevassed and worn by a climate very different from the rarefied air of the court.
Yet Mr. Sesana thinks constantly of home: of the sand and scrub trees and low moon of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve where he grew up and where, he hopes, the row of stern, bewigged judges will allow him to return.
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06 Mai 2006 à 11:21 dans
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