The Kalanga or BaKalanga are a southern Bantu ethnic group mainly inhabiting Matebeleland in Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, and parts of the Limpopo Province in South Africa.

Sep 27, 2013 · For most of that time, they herded cattle, mined gold and copper and had extensive trade with states to the east. For the period before the mid-1800s, the major source is archaeological evidence, combined with recent oral history and occasional references in Portuguese documents.

Bakalanga, also called Bakalaka, are the second largest ethnic group after the Tswana in Botswana. Historically, their lifestyle has been different from that of the Tswana, in their customs and laws.

The Kalanga or Bakalanga are a southern Bantu ethnic group mainly inhabiting northeastern Botswana, Matebeleland in Zimbabwe. Few of them in Limpopo Province in South Africa. They are historically related to the Nambya. Globally, this group totals 458,000 in 2 countries. The Kalanga of Botswana are numbering 227,000.

Feb 13, 2014 · By the earliest centuries of the Christian era (500AD) the Kalanga had established what archeologists have called the Leopard’s Kopje Culture. It was an Iron Age sequence culture which was the first in Sub-Saharan Africa to practice mixed farming; mine, smelt and trade in gold, copper and iron.

Found primarily in south-western Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, and parts of South Africa, the Kalanga community embodies traditions that have shaped the cultural fabric of Southern Africa for centuries. So Who Exactly Are the Kalanga? The Kalanga trace their roots to north-east Africa, specifically Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia.

Feb 6, 2015 · The ancestors of the Bakalanga are linked archaeologically with farmers who lived at the iron-age site of Leopard’s Kopje and through the Shashe-Limpopo valley. These people led a cattle herding and crop farming lifestyle. They also traded in ivory, furs and feathers with the east coast for glass beads, cotton and other ornaments.

Sep 27, 2013 · When Great Zimbabwe collapsed in AD 1450, several competing states formed, one called Mwenumutapa in the Zambezi valley and one known as Butua southwest of Great Zimbabwe at Khami, near modern Bulawayo. The citizens of Butua are the ancestors of those now known as the Bakalanga.

Jun 10, 2020 · Two historical ironies naturally inform any study of Kalanga history today. Firstly, it is the. political contexts.

May 4, 2010 · The people who still up to this day identify themselves as Bakalanga are found in Botswana and Zimbabwe. in Zimbabwe one can confidently acknoledge that the kalanga …