“If you want to know who is Hadzabe, it is the land. Why? Because without land there is no Hadzabe.”

Apr 7

Nyanzobe Mpanda (nye-ahn-zoh-bay m-pahn-dah)

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IMAGE SOURCE: Daudi Peterson. “Hadzabe: By the Light of a Million Fires.” Mikuni na Nyota Publishers. 2012. | TEXT SOURCE: Daudi Peterson. “Hadzabe: By the Light of a Million Fires.” Mikuni na Nyota Publishers. 2012.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “We are Hadzabe. We are Tanzanians…and we live in the Lake Eyasi Valley and surrounding hills. In our oral history we have always lived here. We have no record of living someplace else.”

QUOTE QUESTION: How do others come to know your People?

IMAGE CONTEXT: Central image in the chapter “Land of the Hadzabe” embedded within a landscape photo of the Lake Eyasi Valley and surrounding hills.

IMAGE QUESTION: When and where is your face illuminated by the light of an open fire?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote and photo are from a book published to further education, health care and land and resource rights for the Hadzabe.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: What are the media sources created to provide material support for your People?

“If you want to know who is Hadzabe, it is the land. Why? Because without land there is no Hadzabe.”

Nyanzobe Mpanda (nye-ahn-zoh-bay m-pahn-dah)

“We stay here, to protect this place and the animals. And so we are patient.”

“This land is our land from the beginning. Through all the years we have lived here. We have buried our ancestors right here.”