The Hadzabe - N'Oye - The Last Hunter Gatherers of Tanzania

© Stichting Jimmy Nelson Foundation, 2019
Interview with N'Oye
Our second 2018-19 team of talented photographers, videographers and visual storytellers went to the Hadzabe in Tanzania in February to create the next of many ‘Circle of Cultural Connection’ projects. They travelled to where the dirt track runs out, somewhere along the shores of Lake Eyasi, in the shadow of the Ngorongoro Crater.
Here at the edge of civilisation in East Africa, the Hadzabe eek out a meagre existence as hunter gatherers. While the encroachment of a modernising continent and the ever increasing closure of wildlife corridors have no doubt had an effect, their lifestyle closely reflects how humanity has existed for 90% of its history. Surviving in the Great Rift Valley, they are the last flashback to what society may have looked like in the cradle of life.