The Bamangwato (more correctly BagammaNgwato , and also referred to as the BaNgwato or Ngwato ) is one of the eight "principal" Tswana chieftaincies of Botswana . The modern Bamangwato formed in the Central Serowe,Palapye & Mahalapye District , with its main town and capital (after 1902) at Serowe . The paramount chief, a hereditary position, occupies one of the fifteen places in Ntlo ya Dikgosi , the national House of Chiefs.
5-513: The core population of the Bamangwato are an 18th-century offshoot of the Bakwena people, but members in the Bamangwato kingdom came from many sources, as was the case with all of the major 19th-century African kingdoms. Sir Seretse Khama 's paternal forebears, the chiefs of the Bamangwato, had built several prior capitals including Shoshong and Phalatswe, also known as Old Palapye (Before
10-611: Is a Sotho/Tswana/Sepedi word meaning " crocodile ", the crocodile is also their totem ( seboko ). Earliest ancestor of the Kwena clan, Kwena, was a grandson of Masilo I, the King of Bahurutse clan around 1360 CE. Kwena and his followers settled at Tebang, now called Heidelberg . Around 1500 CE, Bakwena started spreading in the region, from the Lekwa River to Kalahari (Botswana) until settling at Ntsoanatsatsi (mythical origin land of
15-784: The Sotho-Tswana people) with the Bafokeng around 1580 CE. and it continues to the royal line of Lesotho. Kgabo II led a small group of Bakwena and crossed the Madikwe River and founded a tribe on the lands of the Bakgatla tribe (whose totem was the blue monkey) which they drove away, modern day Botswana. As the result of a split, several tribes like the Ngwato and Ngwaketse . This article about an ethnic group in Africa
20-602: The advent of colonial administration and fixed infrastructure, it was common for a town to move when the local environment degraded). Khama and the Protectorate administration created the modern borders of the Central District in Botswana. The Sengwato language caused excitement in linguistic circles in 1998 when it was realized that it contained a unique f-s sound. Seretse Khama , Botswana's first president,
25-664: Was the Kgosi (king/chief) of the Bamangwato, and his son, Botswana's fourth President Ian Khama , is the tribe's de facto paramount chief. This article about an ethnic group in Africa is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bakwena The Bakwena or Bakoena ("those who venerate the crocodile ") are a large Sotho-Tswana clan in Southern Africa of the southern Bantu group . They can be found in different parts of southern Africa such as Lesotho , Botswana , South Africa and Eswatini . "Kwena"
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