"Setswana" culture does not exist; let us explore deeper.
There can be very little doubt if any, that when the British named our country "Bechuanaland" they meant "land of Bakhwana" and not "land of Batswana". By Bakhwana they meant Bakhwa/Bakhwe, more widely known as Bushmen. The most significant pointer to why they couldn't have meant "land of Batswana" is that the people who subsequently called themselves "Batswana", and called their language "Setswana", pushed back against the attempt by the British to label them "Bechuana". It is on record that they told the British missionaries that they were not "Bechuana"; that in fact they were hearing the word "Bechuana" for the first time. Instead, they identified themsellves as just separate tribes - Bakwena, Bangwato, Bangwaketse, Bahurutshe, Bakgatla etc. Granted, the missionaries' record does not say that they identified themselves as Kalangas. But there is nothing strange about that because as the...