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Surname · Setswana

Kwena (Bakwena ba Mogopa)

A seboko of the Batswana, recorded in Setswana, which the sources also call Tswana.

Setswana

  • PeopleBatswana
  • Seboko kwena — The crocodile totem
  • Merafe recorded Bakwena-Mogopa
  • Places recorded Brits, Magaliesberg, North West, Province, South Africa

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Part of Diboko: Sotho, Tswana and Pedi clan names

Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.

Where This Came From

  • L. D. Ngcongco, Origins of the Tswana, 1979 — https://pdfproc.lib.msu.edu/?file=%2FDMC%2FAfrican+Journals%2Fpdfs%2FPULA%2Fpula001002%2Fpula001002003.pdf

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