N?xau ?Tomashort N?xau alternative spelling Gcao Tekene Çoma 16 December 1944 1 July 2003 was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who was made famous by his roles in the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo The Namibian called him Namibias most famous actor On 5 July 2003 he died from multipledrugresistant tuberculosis while he was out on an excursion for hunting guinea fowl According to official estimates he was about 58 or 59 years old at the time He was buried on 12 July in a semitraditional ceremony at Tsumkwe next to the grave of his second wife He had six surviving children