Kgabo II
Kgabo II | |
|---|---|
| Title | Kgosi of the Bakwena |
| Predecessor | Mogopa |
| Successor | Motshodi |
| Children | Motshodi |
| Father | Tebele |
Kgabo II was kgosi of the Kwena tribe. He was born a junior son of the Bakwena kgosi Tebele. Tebele was succeeded by Kgabo's older brother Mogopa, and Kgabo was given control of a ward within the tribe. Following a drought, Mogopa wished to move the tribe to find rain, but Kgabo and his village did not accompany them.[1] The Bakwena split into two separate groups: the Bakwena-Kgabo staying in Rathatheng, and the Bakwena-Mogopa that settled in Mabjanamatshwana.[2][1][3]
Kgabo may have been the kgosi who lead the Bakwena from Rathatheng into present-day Botswana, but this could also have been his son and successor Motshodi.[2][4] According to Isaac Schapera, Kgabo was succeeded by Motshodi c. 1740.[1] According to history professor Leonard Ngcongco, Kgabo and Motshodi lived in the seventeenth century.[5]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Schapera 1980, p. 83.
- ^ a b Otlogetswe 2015, p. 265.
- ^ Ngcongco 1979, p. 36.
- ^ Ngcongco 1979, pp. 36–37.
- ^ Ngcongco 1979, p. 37.
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