These people are found west of Ngorongoro and near the lake Eyasi. They belong to the ethnic group called Khoisan. It's an ethnic group who lives by hunting, gathering and fishing. They speak archaic language, characterized by click sounds. No one knows where they come from, but it is assumed they evolved from Neolithic people. They still live in caves and bushes and practice the old way of living. 

Visiting these people and walking with them through the bush is something completely different. You assume the role that your ancestors played thousands of years of years ago. You have arrived where it all began, on savannas of Africa. 

These people belong to the ethnic group called Nilotes. Nilotes are the pastoralist group more often living a semi nomadic life. Their area of origin is the flats of Sudan. They are sometimes referred as Sudanic people. They are militaristic in attitude and their life is based on age-set organization. 

Nilotes are divided into three groups. Highland nilotes, rivers and lakes nilotes, plains nilotes. Tatoga comes from the group called Barbaig, who are mountain nilotes. Barbaig first arrived in East Africa around AD 1000 and settled in the area around Mount Elgon. Sometimes, later Tatoga sub-tribes moved south as far as Tanzania. Apart from living pastoral way of life Tatoga also do iron working and smelting iron ore.



Maasai people belong to the ethnic group called Nilotes. They are pastoralist, more often living a semi nomadic way of life. Their area of origin is flats of Sudan and they are sometimes referred as Sudanic people. They are militaristic in attitude and their life is based on age-set organization. 

Maasai are well known group of the plain Nilotes. They are believed to have arrived in East Africa in about 1700 and by the beginning of the 19th century, were a dominant tribe in East Africa. 



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