ABSTRACT
The Global North and South discourse has become established to imply power inequalities between countries in the Global North and those in the South. As argued by Comaroff and Comaroff (2012), the South continues to be the suppressed underside of the North which always presents the South in the shadow of the North. Although this is conceived in terms of different regional countries, the Global North and South power dynamics are still present internally within the various Global South contexts themselves even without the Global North presence. Internally, within countries classified as the Global South, the Global North/South power dynamics may be seen between ethnic minority groups and the dominant ethnic groups who usually take the role of the Global North. The ethnic minority groups such as the San in Botswana are usually depicted from the Global South perspective whereby they are always presented as tracking behind in development and having to be playing catch up. Using the post-colonial theory, this chapter uses the Global South/North discourse to explore the tensions within development ontologies for the San in Botswana.
