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N!xau / Kalahari bushman who became a film star and was paid in cattle 

The tiny Kalahari desert bushman known as N!xau, who charmed millions of cinema-goers worldwide in the 1980s with his exuberant performance in the box-office hit, The Gods Must Be Crazy, has died near the place he was born in the remote Tsumkwe area of Namibia . . .

The details of his death are unknown. . .

Uys said that the bushman was a natural actor, but admitted that the white man's ways had two corrupting influences on N!xau: he learned to drink alcohol and smoke.

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