Hottentot Research Paper

The Khoi people were given a collective name as the “Hottentot”. However, this name has acquired a derogatory nature and the name Khoi has become the more preferred name in literature today. The name Hottentot was given to the clan when early European travelers discovered the indigenous herders of southern Africa. When Europeans arrived in southern Africa in the mid-seventeenth century, the Khoi population were located around the Cape of Good Hope and running along the southwestern and western coasts. However, archeological evidence supports that the Khoi population were once more spread out. However, they were displaced continually until A.D. 500 when crop-farmers (Bantu-speaking people) eventually stop migrating southward. They were displaced
again rapidly when a European settlement arrived at the Cape where they were forced into arid and remote areas. Now, the Khoi population mostly resided in the isolated areas of South Africa and Namibia.