Remembering Shoshong after 120 years
On the contrary, Shoshong, an African town established by the Bangwato during the 18th Century was a village like any other of those days. It became prosperous as it was located strategically on the Road to the North. As a major settlement along the route after Molepolole, it offered specialised services, medicinal facilities offered by resident missionaries and controlled trading activities The occupation of the Bangwato under Kgosi Mathiba in the area between Shoshong and Lephephe by around 1790 helped influence trade, political organisation and acted as a consolidation of the Bangwato chiefdom as it attracted smaller ethnic groups to the town during the Mfecane wars.Legendary travellers, traders and missionaries visited the town while traversing to the northern interiors of Southern Africa. Today the old town of Shoshong is identified by a debris of pottery, metal objects, porcelain, remains of house foundations and graves that mark the presence of a bustling town of over 30,000 inhabitants.
Incidentally, several heritage sites located along the Road to the North evoke memories of travel and the evolutionary history of socio political organisation in the area. In remembering the trading town of Shoshong, we need to focus on sustainable development and prudent management of these heritage resources.
Introduction This year marks 122nd anniversary of the dramatic abandonment of what used to be one of the most prosperous trading towns during the 19th century in Southern Africa. Those not accustomed to the development and political dominance of the area around Shoshong and beyond by the Bangwato, may be tempted into imagining the presence of an outstanding town with streets, cars and concrete buildings at that time.
On the contrary, the historic town of Shoshong was a large settlement made up of several groups of people ruled by the Bangwato. The architecture and layout of the town was predominantly African like any other village of that time. A reasonable number of European settlers with their tin roofed rectangular houses, wooden furniture and other European utensils such as porcelain, ox wagons and ploughs, simply set an exceptional standard of livelihood in Old Shoshong. The Botswana National Museum has decided to celebrate this years' International Museum's Day in Shoshong village under the theme; Museums and Memory: Objects tell your Story. This theme evokes memories of one of the most prosperous towns established in Southern Africa, north of the Limpopo River during the 19th Century.
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The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves in an intact and visible form many traces – in terms of architecture, (monasteries, castles, ruins), urban design, (towns and villages), and agricultural use, principally for the cultivation of vines – of its evolution since prehistoric times.
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In the 18th century, hillside viticulture was actively promoted in ecologically optimal regions. The areas released in this way were given over to pasture, with the ensuing economic consequences: some enterprises had to close down whereas others were enlarged. It was at this time that viticulture was finally abandoned in the upper stretches of the Wachau. Development of the countryside in the 19th century had particularly far-reaching consequences for the Wachau. The ratio of acreages devoted to viticulture and fruit growing respectively continues to be closely linked with recurrent fluctuations in markets for the products, giving the Wachau its characteristic appearance.
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