Botswana's+Culture

Ethnic Dress Western dress has been common among people in Botswana, expect at the poorest level, for more than a century. Traditional dress having consisted of tailored leather and fur clothing, effective against the winter cold, ans sandals or soft leather shoes.

Ethinc Food Common diet and cuisine consist of sorghum and maize porridge, melons, seeds, wild plums, beans and pulses and traditional spinach, supplemented by tomato and potato or onion and oranges usually purchased from stores. Meat consumption, (traditionally consisting of occasional wildlife or goat, and beef but rarely) has become more common with the opening of small butcheries selling beef. Beverages include forms of soured milk, sorghum or maize beer, and bottled or canned soft drinks and lager beers. Consumption of chemically preserved canned drinks has greatly increased with the spread of cash income.

Ethinc Art They have a skill at making baskets. Children of all ages taught traditional songs and dance. They praise poetry.