N!xau

N!xau was a member of the San tribe and became world famous as the “Bushman Xi” in the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy”. The comedy reflects the major differences between the so called civilized world and traditional tribes.

Several sequels followed and allowed N!xau to build a house with running water and electricity for his family. Some people say, that most of the fees he earned were blown away by the wind. No surprise, if you keep in mind that he hadn‘t known money and only had met three white people before his first movie. After the end of his career as an actor and lots of journeys around the world, he came back to Namibia to maintain a little farm. N!xau died in 2003 at the age of 58, probably from tuberculosis, while he was hunting.