Xaga was born in the Ghanzi District, Botswana, where her ancestors used to live as hunter- gatherers. As a child she loved to join her mother and the other women to gather tubers, berries and other veldfood in the wide Kalahari veld. Her art career started when she joined the Kuru Art Project in 1997. Her favourite subjects are the things she remembers from her childhood. The veldfood, birds and small animals like tortoises and beetles still fascinate her. For Xaga and the other women artists at the project, the tubers, berries, and edible plants from the Kalahari, symbolise times of abundance and prosperity for their people. Xaga works in a spontaneous and direct way from memory. Her works reflects the life of the San people with simplicity and truth. She can move effortlessly between mediums from large, bold oil paintings to smaller linocuts and fine, sensitive dry point engravings.