Country: Tanzania
Group: Hadza
Date finalized: 10/18/2023
Team: Khulan Davaasuren (lead), Kate, Likith Munigala, Autumn Towne, Lori Francis
Content Warning: Ethnocide
The Hadza are a hunter-gatherer group living around Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania, considered one of the last hunter-gatherer groups with about 1300 members (National Geographic, 2023). The Hadza speak a language known as Hadzane, which involves clicking and popping sounds. Pastoralists and agricultural practices by other groups caused the Hadza people to lose their lands and rights needed to continue practicing a hunter-gatherer lifestyle (teamAG, 2022). Indeed, over the past 50 years, they have lost between 75% to 90% of their land (National Geographic, 2023). Most Hadza parents send their children to boarding schools for over nine months from the age of 6, as it is the only option for good education. At boarding schools, there are non-Hadza teachers teaching only in Swahili (Minority Rights Group, 2021).
Data quality for this case is rated 2/3. Inadequate data collection is available to document ethnocide for the Hadza people.
Sources
- National Geographic (2023). Hadza. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/hadza/
- teamAG. (2022). Hadza: a short history of an ancient tribe. Africa Geographic. https://africageographic.com/stories/a-short-history-of-an-ancient-tribe/
- Minority Rights Group. (2021, January 20). Hadza/Hadzabe – Minority rights group. https://minorityrights.org/minorities/hadzahadzabe/