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Tswana (Motswana, plural Batswana) is the name of a Southern African people. The Tswana language, also called Setswana, belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo languages.
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While a few individuals may have settled in Chicago earlier, the majority of Batswana came to Chicago in the 1990s on educational scholarships.
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Batswana, group of tribes of Bantu stock, making up a large majority of the population of the Southern African country of Botswana. The Batswana are divided into eight principal tribes, the most important and most numerous being the Bamangwato (Ngwato). Most of the Batswana speak Tswana, a Bantu language of the Sotho group. The Batswana live primarily by subsistence farming and frequently tend herds of cattle. Some are expert at fishing.