Our country in the clutches of the Lizards!

We, Kalangas call the speakers of Coptic/Suthu/Tswana languages Ba-Rwa, a mis-spelling of Ba-Ra (Ra's people). The dimunitive (to show contempt) is "Badzwana". As late as 1966, the British were content to name our country after Ra's people - Botswana (land of Badzwana).

We vehemently resisted the British "ceding" of our country to Ra's people, without success. But this does not change the fact that Ra's people (Batswana) are representative of a tribe, and not a "Nation" in our country. So is their language, Se-Tswana.

Only the Kalanga language is truly representative of the "Nation" that is erroneously called "Botswana" today. This is because all the tribes of this nation, including Badzwana, have been shown, by this very blogger, to have been at one time or another, Kalanga speakers.
As a Kalanga speaker I make no apologies for demanding that Kalanga language assumes at the very least,  the same status accorded to Se-Tswana language today. It was wrong to allow a tribal language, Se-tswana to claim national language status in the first place.

I call upon all other Kalangas who speak the different tribal languages in our nation - Shiyeyi, Shimbukushu, iSindebele, IsiZulu, SeNaro, ShiKalahari, TjeKuhane (Subiya), Tjililima, all the Tjikhwa languages and dialects, SeTswana etc. to UNITE around our truly national language, Kalanga and adopt it as our uniting language, just as it used to be when the gods walked the Earth.

What happened to Southern African slaves ?

Portugal had colonies in Southern Africa - Mozambique; Angola. Many slaves were collected from present day Botswana, Zimbabwe, and possibly even from South Africa.

Ancient Mwene Matapa engaged the Portuguese in wars and slave trade. Yet during this World Cup in Brazil every report linking Brazil with Africa seems to suggest that ONLY West African slaves ended up in Brazil. How could this be ? I find it hard to believe that Southern African slaves did not end up in Brazil.