Kgatla (peuple)

Les Kgatla sont une population d'Afrique australe vivant au Botswana. C'est l'un des principaux sous-groupes des Tswanas.

Ethnonymie

Selon les sources et le contexte, on observe plusieurs variantes : Bakatla, Ba-Katlha, Bakgatla, Bakhatla, Kgatlas, Khatla.

Ils parlent une langue bantoue, le kgatla, un dialecte du tswana.

↑ (en) James Stuart Olson, « Kgaltla », in The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, p. 437 (ISBN 9780313279188)
↑ Source BnF

(en) G. P. Lestrade (trad. en anglais et notes), Some Kgatla animal stories, School of African studies, University of Cape Town, Le Cap, 1944, 82 p.
(en) Yonah Hisbon Matemba, « BaKgatla ba ga Mmanaana split, 1934-36: the impact of British sub-imperial rule in Botswana », in Botswana Notes and Records, vol. 32, (2000), p. 39-57
(en) Yonah Hisbon Matemba, « The pre-colonial political history of Bakgatla ba ga Mmanaana of Botswana, c.1600-1881 », in Botswana Notes and Records, vol. 35, (2003), p. 53-67
(en) A. K. Pilane et Naomi Mitchison, « Riddles of the Bakgatla », in Botswana Notes and Records, vol. 6, (1974), p. 29-35
(en) Isaac Schapera, Married life in an African tribe, Peguin Books, Harmondsworth, Mdx., 1971 (1^re éd.) 1940), 329 p. (ISBN 0140212698)
(en) Isaac Schapera, Some Aspects of Kgatla Magic. Ethnological and linguistic studies in honour of N.J. van Warmelo, Department of Bantu Administration and Development, s. l., 1969, 12 p.
(en) Isaac Schapera, Rainmaking rites of Tswana tribes, Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, 1971, 144 p.
(en) Isaac Schapera, Bogwera, Kgatla initiation, Phuthadikobo Museum, Mochudi (Botswana), distributed by the Botswana Book Centre, 1978, 19 p.
(en) David N. Suggs, A bagful of locusts and the baboon woman : constructions of gender, change, and continuity in Botswana, Wadsworth, Belmont (Calif.), 2002, XVIII-121 p. (ISBN 0-15-507038-X)