About

The Heroes Project was launched in South Africa in 2013 with the aim of reviving and creating Khoi-San heroes who would heal the collective trauma of the Khoi-San people and inspire them to strive for their collective rights. The Heroes Project was conceived from the works of mythologist Joseph Campbell who in his classic work ‘the Hero with a Thousand Faces’ articulated the monomyth (a common myth) of a hero’s journey. 

The Khoi-San, more commonly known as the Bushmen community, of South Africa have gone through a cultural and spiritual annihilation first by the colonists and then by the Apartheid policies. The Khoi-San are the first nation's people of South Africa going back almost 60,000 years. But the past 300 years of exploitation and discrimination left the community broken and demoralized. Khoi-San culture and indigenous knowledge was deliberately suppressed and gradually erased from their memories. 

The Heroes Project aims to revive the Khoi-San identity among the Khoi-San youth through their rich mythology and art. It is an effort to spiritually and culturally empower the community to strive for their rights in the future.