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Background and history
Significance behind the project name: !Khure Africa - The Story is the African Wind *</3>
The /xam San peoples believed that if you listen carefully to the wind, stories of the people and the land would reveal themselves: “the story is the wind, the wind is the story”. The /xam had no word for a large region such as southern Africa, our study area; we therefore add the word Africa to give the flavour of a more regional wind that must have embedded in it the story of the Earth.
- /xam San idea, adapted from P. Skotnes and M. Fleishman, A story is the wind. Llarec Series in Visual History, Cape Town, 2002.
