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

1. Schapera 1980, p. 83.
2. Otlogetswe 2015, p. 265.
3. Ngcongco 1979, p. 36.
4. Ngcongco 1979, pp. 36–37.
5. Ngcongco 1979, p. 37.

References

• Ngcongco, Leonard D. (1979). "Origins of the Tswana". Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies. 1 (2): 21–46. ISSN 0256-2316.
• Otlogetswe, Thapelo J. (2015). "Treatment of Spelling Variants in Setswana Monolingual Dictionaries". Lexikos. 25. doi:10.5788/25-1-1299.
• Schapera, Isaac (1980). "Notes on the Early History of the Kwena (Bakwena-bagaSechele)". Botswana Notes and Records. 12: 83–87. ISSN 0525-5090. JSTOR 40980796.