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/ 14 October 2007

Amazon tribe hits back at green ‘colonialism’

It’s one of the most fashionable ideas to save the planet from global warming: buying up tropical rainforest to save it from destruction. But like all big ideas it is controversial, and this week a leading Amazonian campaigner will visit Britain to protest that this latest trend is linked to a health and social crisis among indigenous people.

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/ 5 September 2007

San, Bushmen or Basarwa: What’s in a name?

A reader wrote to object to the Mail & Guardian‘s usage of the term ”Bushmen” for Southern Africa’s first people. Kobus Faasen quoted at length from a Dutch dictionary published in 1902, which said the word meant ”one who lives in the bushes” but had also been applied to apes, particularly the orangutan.