Bamangwato

…of those Kwena thenceforth called Ngwato settled farther north at Shoshong. By about 1795 a group of Ngwato, called the Tawana, had even founded a state as far northwest as Lake Ngami.

…the Tswana converts were the Ngwato, under the king Khama III (reigned 1875–1923), who established a virtual theocracy among his people and was perhaps the most acclaimed Christian convert of his day, while in the eastern Cape the Mfengu were in the forefront of mission activity and peasant enterprise. In…

…the traditional headquarters of the Bamangwato people. It consists primarily of clusters of round, traditional African houses surrounded by extensive compounds and gardens, the whole village in turn being surrounded by about 30 miles (50 km) of arable agricultural lands and cattle-grazing posts. Serowe was first occupied by the Bamangwato…