Bushmen

…They're a very ethnic and genetically separate group, right? There's a lot of genetic and ethnic diversity in Africa, more than in the rest of the world by a lot. And the Bushmen, those people are very distinct. In fact, I've read that genetically they're more akin to Asians than they are to black Africans.…

…So that was about 400 years ago. But what also happened in South Africa in terms of the different black groups, if you could use that term, who live in South Africa, is we had the, and still have the, what is called the Khoi and the San. A lot of people know it as the Bushmen. That's how they're also known. A lot of them prefer to be called the Bushmen.…

…half, really, of the podcast talking about the history of the settlement of South Africa. The original people there were Bushmen who aren't particularly related genetically to the Bantu, the black people who live there now, and obviously not to the So the situation with regards to ethnicity and race in South Africa is a lot more complicated than it appears…