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First People of the Kalahari (FPK) was a local advocacy organisation in
Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...
that worked for the rights of the indigenous San who had been forced by the Government of Botswana to resettle to the new built town of New Xade. The organization was founded in 1991, registered in 1992 and officially recognised in 1993.
Roy Sesana Roy Sesana (born c. 1950) is a San activist who worked together with the First People of the Kalahari for the rights of his tribe. Biography Sesana lives in New Xade in the central Kalahari and works as a traditional medicine man. He moved to ...
became chairman in 1995 and had a leading role in the organisation. Sesana and FPK were awarded the
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in 2005. FPK had dissolved as an organisation by 2013. Roy Sesana is also known as Tobee Tcori – his Bushman name. He is a leader of the Gana, Gwi and Bakgalagadi ‘Bushmen’. As such, he is one of their most eloquent spokespeople. He was born in a Bushman community, Molapo, in Botswana, at least 50 years ago – he doesn't know his precise age. He spent a few years as a labourer in South Africa before returning to the central Kalahari in 1971, to train as a traditional healer .


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I want 2 go home – Kgeikani Kweni (First People of the Kalahari)
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