This chapter discusses the past century and a half has been dominated by the effort of others to impose on them a particular way of seeing and being, to colonize their consciousness with the signs and practices, the axioms and aesthetics, of an alien culture. It explores three crucial registers in the long argument and the battle that ensued for control over its terms. These are the politics of water, the politics of production, and the politics of language. In their effort to engage the Tswana in just such a conversation about everyday life, the evangelists soon found themselves caught up in the politics and poetics of water. In the absence of elaborate ritual or explicit iconography, the rites of rainmaking presented the Europeans with Tswana "superstition" in its most tangible form. The contemporary Tswana division of labor separated cattle husbandry from cultivation, male from female work.
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