Life in the Kalahari

The Kalahari Bushmen have inhabited Southern Africa for more than 20,000 years. In this week’s Underreported feature, we talk to Kalahari Bushman Roy Sesana, Botswanan newspaper editor and translator Beate Kasale, and Rupert Isaacson, author of The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert. We’ll look at the current threats facing one of the world’s oldest living cultures, and find out why the Kalahari Bushmen are being forced off of their ancestral lands. Then, one of the most well-respected investigative journalists of our time, The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, joins us to discuss his work. His new book Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, is a collection of his New Yorker articles from the past three years.