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" is a Sotho/Tswana/Sepedi word meaning " crocodile ", the crocodile is also their totem ( seboko ).
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6-632: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Koena tribe 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
9-784: 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
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