WINDHOEK, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Namibian government in partnership with the European Union will this week launch a mobile exhibition and a catalogue produced by the Museums Association of Namibia (MAN), in collaboration with the Namibian San Council (NSC), to celebrate one of the country's most marginalized communities, the San people.
The exhibition also focuses on the largest collection in the world of historical artifacts from Namibia's San communities, collected by Fourie in the 1920s. The collection is currently held in Museum Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The exhibition is part of a project titled "Museum Development as a Tool for Strengthening Cultural Rights in Namibia" funded by European Union.
The Namibian San Council decided that the title of the exhibition should be in several of the different languages of Namibia's San communities.
MAN said the multilingual title reflects the diversity within Namibia's San communities and the importance the council places on the preservation of the different San languages as being central to the protection of their cultural rights.
Kileni Fernando, the NSC secretary, said, "The most important thing for us is that the exhibition and catalogue will encourage young people to discuss our culture and history with their elders."
The San peoples, also known as the "Bushmen," are members of various indigenous hunter-gatherer groups that are the first nations of Southern Africa.
