{"id":9294,"date":"2020-02-04T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2020-11-02T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T10:23:45","slug":"bostwana-the-land-of-tswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/en\/2020\/02\/04\/bostwana-the-land-of-tswana\/","title":{"rendered":"BOSTWANA,  the land of tswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tswana_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tswana<\/a> <\/b>is the tribe of the land of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.bw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bostwana<\/a> <\/b>while <b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tswana_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Setswana<\/a> <\/b>is name of the language they speak.<\/p>\n<p>They use <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/language\/TSN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Setswana<\/a> <\/b>in everyday life \u2018if you want to travel to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/botswana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Botswana<\/a> <\/b>why not pick up simple swana words that you can use when you travel their \u2018. The main religion is Christianity, though these days the modern western culture lifestyle has been adapted by many <b>African countries<\/b> and little African culture in certain rural areas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8864 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-19-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"BOSTWANA, Meaning land of the tswana\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-19-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-19-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-19-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-19-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-19-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8865 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-20-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"BOSTWANA the land of tswana\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-20-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-20-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-20-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-20-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-20-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_of_Botswana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> traditional music<\/a> is performed by <b>tswana people<\/b> during special occasions like weddings, feasts, initiation ceremony, using traditional instruments like; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Segaba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>segaba<\/strong><\/a> which is similar to the violin, and the<strong> setikane\u00a0 <\/strong>made of many forks and played like a keyboard. This type of fork music has been practiced for many years now from generation to generation till now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-21.jpg\" alt=\"setikane botswana musical instrument\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-21.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-21-768x740.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8867 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-22.jpg\" alt=\"segaba botswana music instrument\" width=\"142\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-22.jpg 142w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-22-768x1914.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cuisine of Botswana<\/p>\n<p>Is similar to that of other <b>southern African countries<\/b>, a must try when you \u00a0travel to <b>southern Africa<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Food <\/b>include <b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ugali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pap<\/a> <\/b>more like <b>polenta<\/b>, salted mash up meat, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gonimbrasia_belina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mopane worms<\/a>, watermelons <\/strong>are said to have originated in <b>Botswana<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8868 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-23-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"botswana cuine, botswana food\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-23-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-23-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-23-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-23-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-23-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8869 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-24-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"botswana cuine, botswana food 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-24-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-24-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-24-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-24-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-24-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traditional Marriages<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally a man\u2019s wife was selected for him by his family it was not love at first sight.<\/p>\n<p>If he came from a wealthy family he could marry more than one wife.\u00a0 A man would pay the bride\u2019s family a bride before she become his wife called <strong>bogadi <\/strong>and only then could the children she bore be part of the man\u2019s family after he has paid her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bride_price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>bride price<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is the wife failed to produce a child the families would replace her with one of her sisters from her family. The <b><a href=\"https:\/\/yourbotswana.com\/2018\/10\/21\/bogadi-is-not-setswana-culture-kgosikwena-sebele\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bogadi<\/a> <\/b>can be paid in form of cattle, money or anything valuable that both families agree on.<a href=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-1.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"default\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-1.jpg 305w, https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Great-Zambesi-river-zambia-highlights-1-300x162.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Botswana traditional marriage\" width=\"305\" height=\"165\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>But in today\u2019s world these strong unfair rules of traditional marriages have reduced in <b>Africa<\/b>, a groom is free to pick the woman of his heart to marry, but the bride price system is still practiced even now in many countries in <b>southern Africa<\/b>. Due to education many people have learnt about modern ways and human rights.<\/p>\n<p><b>Botswana <\/b>is a must visit country in African friendly people that are welcoming and beautiful places to visit and many interesting traditional things to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our copywriter from Zambia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/evanna-willima-copywriter-heart-of-africa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoaexp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/evanna-willima-copywriter-heart-of-africa-150x150.png\" alt=\"evanna willima copywriter heart of africa\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eva.willima?__tn__=%2CdlC-R-R&amp;eid=ARAE29UVcakntmebczWslMYgQK3lBDMmkKGXwRZOGIXfExzynxtvchRIl5nLd-l14lA9oXo-B7uOn5dM&amp;hc_ref=ARQ26HjsgOSaECULVTpSSvfJF566fr8SNG2BX6PYZAAqXffysk51Bp2lWOHMjo2oI0I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evanna Chawa Willima<\/a>, a 28 year old Zambian girl. Works in Safari camps in National Parks in Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>ARE YOU NOW CURIOUS ABOUT THIS COUNTRY?<br \/>\nCHECK NOW YOUR VISA AVAILABILITY AND BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivisa.com\/zambia-visa?utm_source=hoaexp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ivisa.s3.amazonaws.com\/affiliate\/zambia-leaderboard-gif.gif\" alt=\"iVisa.com\" \/><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tswana is the tribe of the land of Bostwana while Setswana is name of the language they speak. They use Setswana in everyday life \u2018if you want to travel to Botswana why not pick up simple swana words that you can use when you travel their \u2018. 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