The Bamangwato (more correctly BagammaNgwato, and also referred to as the BaNgwato or Ngwato) is one of the eight "principal" Tswana chieftaincies of Botswana. They ruled over a majority Bakalanga population (the largest ethnic group in Central District), with minorities including the Basarwa, Birwa and Tswapong. The modern Bamangwato formed in the Central District, with its main town and capital (after 1902) at Serowe. The paramount chief, a hereditary position, occupies one of the fifteen places in Ntlo ya Dikgosi, the national House of Chiefs.[1]
The core population of the Bamangwato are an 18th-century offshoot of the Bakwena people, but members in the Bamangwato kingdom came from many sources, as was the case with all of the major 19th-century African kingdoms. Sir Seretse Khama's paternal forebears, the chiefs of the Bamangwato, had built several prior capitals including Shoshong and Phalatswe, also known as Old Palapye (Before the advent of colonial administration and fixed infrastructure, it was common for a town to move when the local environment degraded).[2] Khama and the Protectorate administration created the modern borders of the Central District in Botswana.
The Sengwato language caused excitement in linguistic circles in 1998 when it was realized that it contained a unique f-s sound.[3]
Seretse Khama, Botswana's first president, was the Kgosi (king/chief) of the Bamangwato, and his son, Botswana's fourth President Ian Khama, is the tribe's de facto paramount chief.
The Bamangwato (more correctly BagammaNgwato, and also referred to as the BaNgwato or Ngwato) is one of the eight "principal" Tswana chieftaincies of Botswana...
and ultimately a dispute between Kwena and Ngwato over a lost cow. Shortly after the lost-cow incident, Ngwato and his followers secretly left Kwena's village...
facto leader of the Ngwato, though the United Kingdom forbade him from being the official kgosi. With British support, the Ngwatotribe developed a tribal...
people.: xxiii c. 1750 – The Ngwato people split from the Kwena people.: xxiii c. 1795 – The Tawana people split from the Ngwato people.: xxiii 1824 July...
drove away, modern day Botswana. As the result of a split, several tribes like the Ngwato and Ngwaketse. Kgabo II (until c. 1740) Motshodi (c. 1740 – c. 1770)...
Once they settled in Diruthe, the Kwena came into conflict with the Ngwatotribe. The Bangwato aligned with the Bakololo, who then killed Tshosa and Moruakgomo...
just identify themselves as Talaote or Ngwato, with little knowledge of what Talaote really means. Most Talaote tribe who witnessed the conflicts between...
Setshele soon accused the Tlokwa of cowardice in a battle against the Ngwato, and Matlapeng ended the alliance (on non-violent terms) and led his people...
(LMS), who lived at Shoshong from 1862 to 1876, "believed that the BamaNgwato and other African peoples with whom he worked were threatened by Boer freebooters...
three main branches of the Tswana tribe formed during the 17th century. Three brothers, Kwena, Ngwaketse and Ngwato, broke away from their father, Chief...
the same history. They were all united under one political head, Kgoshi Ngwato, back in the 14th and 15th century. At this time they lived along the Crocodile...
some of his supporters fled into the desert. He spent some years among the Ngwato people and married Mokgokong, a daughter of Chief Kgari. In about 1831 he...
Rulers of Balete (baMalete) Rulers of baNgwaketse Rulers of Bangwato (bamaNgwato) Rulers of baTawana Rulers of baTlôkwa Lists of office-holders "Botswanan...
leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, and subsequently re-elected...
prevent other nations from taking power in the region. The BaNgwato and BaNgwaketse tribes were the first to wholly adopt Christianity in the 1890s and...
(17 September 1905 – 10 June 1959) was the regent-king of the Bamangwato tribe in 1926 after the death of Sekgoma II. Tshekedi Khama was born in Serowe...
Phuting are thought to be of a Ngwato ancestry: hence the name 'Phuting', from the animal phuti (African duiker), a Ngwato tribal totem. The people of Mogaung...
by a group of Ngwato warriors while returning to the Transvaal, and that the Boers were threatening to attack the British-protected Ngwato chief, Khama...
its treatment of Seretse Khama and handling of a disagreement with the BaNgwato. When the Protectorate Legislative Council was created in 1960, she was...
people from Tonota speak Sekhurutshe-SeNgwato (a language which is merely an inclusion of Kalanga-like words in SeNgwato) and Kalanga. The economy of the village...
initially inhabited by BaPhaleng, who were later joined by Bakaa, and later BaNgwato under King Sekgoma I. Oral traditions from the village points that the Baphaleng...
for two years until 1877. From time to time newcomers joined them. The Ngwato chief Khama, across whose land they had to trek at that stage, was still...
their Ikalanga identity, and now just identify themselves as Talaote or Ngwato, with little knowledge of what Talaote really means. Ramsay, Jeff; Part...
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