Damasonqua

Damasonqua was a Khoikhoi group in the eastern Cape of southern Africa, placed west of the Gonaqua, another Khoikhoi people of the same region. The two names refer to different groups and should not be treated as interchangeable. In the eighteenth century, colonial expansion changed relationships among Khoikhoi communities, Xhosa polities and settlers. Livestock and access to land were central to these encounters, which included exchange as well as conflict.