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KhoikhoiMember of any of several peoples living in Namibia and Cape Province of South Africa. They number about 30,000. Their language is related to San (spoken by the Kung) and uses clicks for certain consonants; it belongs to the Khoisan family. The Khoikhoi once inhabited a wider area, but were driven into the Kalahari Desert by invading Bantu peoples and Dutch colonists in the 18th century. They live as nomadic hunter-gatherers, in family groups, and have animist beliefs. |
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| Many accounts of the "Hottentots" or Khoikhoi of South Africa related how the children were greased when young to make them blacker, a trait that was supposedly passed on to subsequent generations by some mysterious process. A woman of the Khoikhoi peoples who followed and tended cattle through the lush Cape valleys, she chose to join up with the European newcomers, learn their language, wear their clothes, be baptized in their church, and marry their surgeon. By the early nineteenth century the conquest of the peoples known as the Khoikhoi, Hottentot, and Bushmen was nearly complete. |
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