"The subject of this paper is communicating with indigenous communities via grassroots comics, in this case the Khwe San who live in Platfontein in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The study is largely informed by contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participatory communication, which values individuals who live in the community as active participants in the research process. The use of grassroots comics is based on theoretical concepts surfacing in current literature regarding the field of development communication nd is somewhat critical of older, top-down theories of development." (Abstract)