Bamangwato

The Bamangwato are a Tswana people whose history is closely tied to the hills and plains around Shoshong. Their chief Mathiba led followers north to this country in the eighteenth century. A dispute within his family saw his son Tawana move towards Lake Ngami, where the Batawana established themselves, while Khama became chief of the Bangwato in the 1790s. Later, under Kgari, the Bangwato lived for a time at Mabele-a-pudi north of Serowe; the upheavals of the 1820s brought further movement through the region.