Mmadikola
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Mmadikola is a village in Central District of Botswana. It is located in the western part of the district, close to Makgadikgadi Pan, and it has a primary school. The population was 828 in 2001 census.[1]
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- ^ "Distribution of population by sex by villages and their associated localities: 2001 population and housing census". Archived from the original on 2007-11-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20071124145541/http://www.cso.gov.bw/html/census/dist52_53.html. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
Coordinates: 21°2′24″S 24°27′59″E / 21.04°S 24.46639°E
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my name is keikemetse emang and i live in Mmadikola, in a ward by the name Raphogo.i was born in 1991 October the 1st. i have lived in Mmadikola since my childhood until 2000, that's when i moved to Sowa Town. my mother's name is Keletwaetse Emang, my father's, Emang Gareitsane. where i live we are all related in the ward on both the matrilineal and patrilineal side.
So now Mmadikola is a very small rural village with people who still believe a lot in culture and related disciplines. It has a population of no more than 5000, mixed with Bayei(who make large part of the population), bakalanga, Bananjwa and Banoka. The is absolute peace between the different cultures. i should think if there was bad blood between them, it all dissolved in the intermarriage between themselves.
The reasons for this small population maybe of the mere fact that there was a huge number of people who migrated from the place because there are no industries set up, no minerals to extract, poor soils for both pastoral and arable farming.
The history of the tribes that happen to reside there is very interesting. for instance th Yei people are vastly occupying regions of the of the country. somewhere in the 1900's due to divide and rule, the Yei people where moved from areas around Maun to the central district. according to the elders, the few Yei people that were migrated from the Ngami region pleaded with the athourities at the time to atleast leave them at Mmadikola. the reason being they are people of the water as thier name carries that meaning.so at the time a large area of mmadikola was covered with water and rivers were overflowing. fortunate enough the were left there.
even today most Mmadikola residents like back in the 60's still migrate to the nearby big villages like Letlhakane and Orapa where the diamomond mines are to find jobs.
