Yeyi

The Yeyi are a people of the Okavango's channels and floodplains, where water spreads into the sands of the Kalahari. Their language, Shiyeyi, belongs to the Bantu family. Fishing, cultivation and the use of canoes tie their lives to the changing waters of the delta. Yeyi traditions tell of migration from the north: by the eighteenth century communities had settled among earlier inhabitants of the Okavango, and some spread south towards the Boteti River.