The San are one of fourteen known extant “ancestral population clusters” from which all known modern humans descend & one of the oldestĬolonisation has been the biggest threat to these peoples as land redistribution & restrictions on movement had caused their numbers to dwindle. Their language & traditions vary greatly although the similarities in cultural kinship & genetics are striking. San, or Bushmen, is really a collective description of various indigenous hunter-gatherer tribes, stretching from the last remaining San in South Africa, throughout Southern Africa to the Okavango Delta. San Bushman – Botswana (Namibia,Angola,Zambia,Zimbabwe ) Hop on one of our Namibian adventure tours and take a glimpse of this magnificent tribe north of Namibia. Coupled with their beautiful and intricate jewellery from iron and shell beads, these women, in this landscape, are a photographers dream. They rub their bodies with red ochre and fat to protect them from the harsh desert climate, creating a beautiful & dramatic change in skin colour. The men tend to the flocks & are responsible for slaughtering when the times comes while the women tend to do most of the labour intensive work – building houses, milking the goats & cattle, collecting water, raising children. Living in this harsh and unforgiving landscape not only dictates their movements from waterhole to water hole but has shaped every aspect of their culture. Inhabiting Namibia’s remote northwestern Kunene Region, the Himba are nomadic hunter-gatherers. Visit the Maasai tribes in Kenya or Tanzania on one of our Camping or Accommodated Overland adventures With their pierced, stretched earlobes, ornamental bead-work & vivid, brightly coloured attire, the image of the Maasai warrior watching over his herd is a postcard memory of East Africa. Although they have their own language, Maa, most can speak both English and Swahili as well. Perhaps the most recognisable of East Africa’s tribes, the Maasai (or Masai or Masaai) are a semi-nomadic tribe in southern Kenya & Tanzania. Here are the top 4 tribes you can visit on your African adventure with Acacia Africa. Art, music, and oral literature serve to reinforce existing religious and social patterns. Much of Africa’s cultural activity centres on the family and the ethnic group. They speak a vast number of different languages, live in a variety of types of dwellings (huts and rondavels) practice hundreds of religions and engage in a wide range of economic activities. Today, the vast majority of its inhabitants are of indigenous origin. The vast continent was the birthplace of the human species between 8 million and 5 million years ago and has a vast rich culture.
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