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{{Short description|Botswana organization for rights of the San people}}
[[File:2005_-_Roy_Sesana_Kalahari_1.jpg | thumb | 220x124px | right | Roy Sesana]]
'''First People of the Kalahari''' ('''FPK''') was a local advocacy organisation in [[Botswana]] that worked for the rights of the indigenous [[San people|San]] who had been forced by the Government of Botswana to resettle to the new built town of [[New Xade]]. The organization was founded in 1991, registered in 1992 and officially recognised in 1993. [[Roy Sesana]] became chairman in 1995 and had a leading role in the organisation. Sesana and FPK were awarded the [[Right Livelihood Award]] in 2005. FPK had dissolved as an organisation by 2013.

Roy Sesana is also known as Tobee Tcori – his Bushman name. He is a leader of the Gana, Gwi and Bakgalagadi ‘Bushmen’. As such, he is one of their most eloquent spokespeople. He was born in a Bushman community, Molapo, in Botswana, at least 50 years ago – he doesn't know his precise age. He spent a few years as a labourer in South Africa before returning to the central Kalahari in 1971, to train as a traditional healer{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}.

== External links ==
*[https://wayback.archive-it.org/1068/20100629171248/http://www.iwant2gohome.org/ I want 2 go home – Kgeikani Kweni (First People of the Kalahari)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100620074232/http://rightlivelihood.org/first-people-of-the-kalahari.html The Right Livelihood Award – First People of the Kalahari / Roy Sesana (Botswana)]
*https://www.survivalinternational.org/material/280 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013231846/https://www.survivalinternational.org/material/280 |date=2022-10-13 }}
*{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-90-6704-609-1_1 |chapter=Introduction: Indigenous Identity in Africa |title=Indigenousness in Africa |year=2011 |last1=Ndahinda |first1=Felix Mukwiza |pages=1–13 |isbn=978-90-6704-333-5 }}
*{{cite journal |doi=10.1080/0305707022000043520|title='We are the First People': Land, Natural Resources and Identity in the Central Kalahari, Botswana |year=2002 |last1=Hitchcock |first1=Robert K. |journal=Journal of Southern African Studies |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=797–824 |s2cid=146291403 }}
*{{cite journal |jstor=4187641|last1=Dube |first1=Smile |title=Reviewed work: The Inconvenient Indigenous: Remote Area Development, Donor Assistance, and the First People of the Kalahari, Sidsel Saugestad |journal=Africa Today |year=2004 |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=133–136 }}

[[Category:Organisations based in Botswana]]
[[Category:Indigenous rights organizations in Africa]]
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