THE HADZABE TRIBE TANZANIA.

The Rarely Hunter-Gather society

Hadzabe

The Hadzabe are an ethnic group indigenous in Tanzania Southern-West of the Arusha region around Lake Eyasi in the Central Rift Valley and there still surviving basing on traditional means of Hunting and gathering. Hadza ancestors lived in the current territory 30 miles from Oldvai George, an area called the Credle of Humankind due to the presence of older human fossils. The Archiological pieces of evidence suggest that the area has been occupied by gathers and hunters for more than 5,000 years. The Hadza oral history does not suggest any record of Hadza people moving from elsewhere to Hadzaland. The Hadza are one of the remaining hunter-gatherer societies in the world with a population of fewer than 2000 people and are said to be isolated and unrelated to other tribes.

Hadzabe Language

Hadzabe has an entire oral unique language characterized by Click consonants similar to Khoisan and Southern African languages. The language is vulnerable and is predicted to be in danger of extinction because most children learn it but the use is restricted to certain boundaries of home. The language is the most factor in distinguishing who is and is not part of Hadza people and they are now learning Swahili the National language of Tanzania.

Lifetime

From Tanzania’s history, this hunter-gatherer population has probably occupied
their current territory for thousands of years, with relatively little modification to their basic way of life including dressing styles, activities, and norms. Their traditional way of life has been threatened by tourism activities, encroachment on their land, and the government encouraging them to adopt a modern lifestyle. However, there have been efforts to preserve their cultural heritage for attraction and future historical studies.

The Hadzabe baobab House

Housing

The Hadza live in a communal setting and engage in cooperative children’s care where everyone high-quality children’s care. The Hadza live in temporal camps made of grasses and woods and move frequently in search of food, honey, and games. They move camps for reasons like conflicts and sometimes when a man kills a big animal a camp tends to temporally move to a killing site, and camps are abandoned when someone falls ill or dies.

Small temporary houses used by Hadza people.

Hadzabe Food.

Women specialize in technology like digging sticks, grass baskets, and skin pouches for carrying items, knives, shoes, and other small items used to collect berries, tubers, and greens. Women are occasionally gathering small animals, eggs, and gather honey. Men specialize in gathering fruits from big trees like baobab, hunting and procuring meat, and harvesting honey using axes, bows, poisoned and non-poisoned allows, fire drills, honey posts, and knives.

The Hadza carrying fresh meat after hunting a wild animal

External interaction.

The hadza people are now interacting with external modern societies, neighbor tribes, and other modern societies from Tanzania and outside. Tourism activities are performed in their territories where people are attracted to their traditional way of life (foods, shelter, and traditions). Other academic researchers visit the Hadza to conduct societal research and historical proof. Archeologists and linguists are the other people visiting the territory to collect historical evidence on rocks, and oral literature from Hadza people.

The Hadza traditions may undergo extinction after some years due to the adoption of foreign deeds like dressing styles, eating new foods, and children attending modern schools. Furthermore, the Tanzania Government is enforcing some efforts to facilitate hadza to modern education, housing, and other social services. Worse enough the Hadza tradition is in oral literature, so after years of non-documentation, their history may disappear. there should be clear efforts from the government, UNESCO, individuals, and other institutions to help document and record their history to ensure that the coming generations learn the attractive history of Hadza.

THE HADZABE TRIBE TANZANIA.