Etymologies and Meanings of Botswana’s Town Names – Kanye
While Molepolole holds the crown for being the largest village in Botswana, Kanye has that distinction for being the country’s longest continuously occupied tribal capital. Home to Bangwaketse and serving as the Administrative Capital of the Southern District, Kanye, which has a population of just under 50,000, traces its origins to the late 18th century, when Kgosi Makaba II settled his people on this hilly fortress in the vicinity of the Ngotwane River. After a period of strife and nomadic…