Kanye

Kanye is a town in southern Botswana, found 83 kilometers south-west of the capital, Gaborone. It is the authoritative focus of the Southern District, and had a populace of 45,196 at the 2011 registration, making it the 8th-biggest town in the country. Kanye is the conventional capital of the Ngwaketse clan, who previously settled in the zone during the 1790s. The town is the longest persistently involved innate capital in the nation. Kanye lies on a progression of slopes which structure a characteristic defensive boundary against the sands of the Kalahari Desert. The slopes reach out into the Bushveld locale of South Africa. There is a profound normal canyon called Kanye Gorge near the town, which was supposedly utilized as a concealing spot for residents during the different clashes of the 19th century.

Kanye was built up during the 1790s by Makaba, the vital head of the Ngwaketse a clan of the bigger Tswana individuals. He moved his clan to Kanye in the wake of losing a fight to the adjacent Kwena clan, sustaining a current slope Kanye Hill with stone dividers. In around 1798, Kanye was assaulted by a coalition of Rolong and Griquas, yet the Ngwaketse had the option to rebuff the assault and slaughter their rivals' leader. European merchants and seekers started visiting Kanye in the mid-19th century, however, it was not until the rule of Gaseitsiwe who ended up head of the Ngwaketse in 1845 that they started to really settle in the area. In 1852, Joseph McCabe, a British dealer, crossed the Kalahari Desert from south to north, starting in Kanye and closure at Lake Ngami.