{{Short description|Area of villages in the Ngamiland West sub-district of Botswana}} '''Etsha''' is an area of villages in the Ngamiland West sub-district of Botswana. Refugees from the 1969 war in Angola were resettled in the area and formed 13 villages numbered Etsha 1 to Etsha 13.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3ElAwAAQBAJ&dq=etsha&pg=PA369|title=Botswana Safari Guide: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari|first=Chris|last=McIntyre|year=2014|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=9781841624891 |via=Google Books}}</ref> A resettlement study was published about it in the 1970s. <ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979461|title=Etsha: A Successful Resettlement Scheme|author=Potten, David|year=1976|journal=Botswana Notes and Records|volume=8|pages=105–119|jstor=40979461 }}</ref> A study of basketmakers in Etsha was published in 1984.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rxu-GwAACAAJ | title=A Survey of Basketmakers, Etsha, Ngamiland, Botswana | last1=Elizabeth Terry | first1=M. | year=1984 }}</ref> The development of commercial craft industries have been targeted in the community, including palm-frond weaving.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhw_AQAAIAAJ&q=etsha|title=Botswana Notes and Records|date=2000|publisher=Botswana Society|via=Google Books}}{{page?|date=January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kweZ5a8zNQIC&dq=etsha&pg=PA54|title=Applied Ethnobotany: People, Wild Plant Use and Conservation|first=Anthony B.|last=Cunningham|year= 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781136534669 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=niRHTVGgU10C&dq=etsha&pg=PA162|title=Uncovering the Hidden Harvest: Valuation Methods for Woodland and Forest Resources|first1=Bruce Morgan|last1=Campbell|first2=Martin Karl|last2=Luckert|year=2002|publisher=Earthscan|isbn=9781853838095 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Villages== * Etsha 6 * Etsha 13<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cso.gov.bw/html/census/dist70_71_72_73.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124145529/http://www.cso.gov.bw/html/census/dist70_71_72_73.html | archive-date=2007-11-24 | title=Distribution of population by sex by villages and their associated localities: 2001 population and housing census }}</ref>
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Category:Populated places in Botswana
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