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In today’s digital age, where people look at their face in the mirror dozens of times every day, take selfies with their phones and admire their beauty, there are some people on this earth for whom even a simple mirror is like something magical or scary. These days, one such video is making a lot of headlines on social media, seeing which people are laughing and also surprised to see this aspect of human civilization. This incident is of the ‘Hadzabe’ tribe living in the forests of Tanzania in Africa, where when a mirror was taken in front of the people for the first time, their reaction was worth seeing.
Mistaking the mirror for an enemy, they started picking up stones.
In the video going viral, it is shown that when a YouTuber or guide placed a mirror in front of a person from the tribe, he got horrified. As soon as he saw another person inside the glass behaving exactly like him, he got scared and took two steps back. Some other people of the tribe thought that it was some magical weapon or that some other person had entered their territory.
The state of surprise and fear was such that a person considered his own shadow visible in front of him as his enemy and picked up a stone from the ground to attack it. Later, when the team members explained to him through gestures that it was not some other person but his own face, his anger calmed down and the surprise hidden in his eyes increased even more. He repeatedly put his hand behind the mirror to see if anyone was hiding there.
Who are the Hadzabes and why is their world so different?
The Hadzabe people are considered to be one of the oldest and last hunter-gatherer communities in Africa. These people have been living for thousands of years in the dense forests around Yada Valley and Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania. Today, when the world is thinking of establishing settlements on the Moon and Mars, this tribe is still living its life like a primitive era, away from modern comforts, mobile phones, electricity and clothes.
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Hunting with bow and arrow: Even today the men of this clan do not depend on any shop or farming for food. Every morning they go out with bows and arrows and hunt wild animals. The women of the tribe collect tubers, fruits and wild honey from the forest.
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Unique language: Their language is completely different from other languages of the world. They use ‘clicks’ (making different sounds from the mouth) more than words to talk to each other.
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Shrinking population: The population of this tribe, which once numbered thousands, has now reduced to only between 1200 and 1300. Out of these, only 300 to 400 people are left who are completely living their old and traditional lifestyle, while the rest are gradually moving towards modern villages.
Interference of the modern world and clan conflict
In the last few years, due to the increasing interference of social media, YouTubers and tourists, people from the outside world have started coming closer to them. Often people go to them and show them things like glasses, watches or mirrors and record their reaction. These videos become a source of entertainment on the internet, but at the same time they also raise a serious question whether we should interfere in the natural life of these ancient tribes?
Today the Hadzabe community is fighting hard to preserve its existence. In Tanzania, due to increasing farming, deforestation and wildlife conservation areas being created by the government, their hunting area is becoming smaller and smaller. The government is trying to settle them in cities or villages by giving them permanent houses, but these people are not ready to give up their free wild life.
Scientists and anthropologists believe that tribes like the Hadzabe are like a living book to understand our human history. By studying their lifestyle, eating habits and physical ability to survive in such harsh conditions without any disease, the modern world can learn how to live in harmony with nature.
