Monday, September 26, 2016

Staging Social Structures: Customary and Social Organisation in an Egalitarian Society. The Indigenous Plight in the World Heritage Property Ngorongoro- Tanzania

The Ngorongoro! The world heritage property! There are possible several thing one can anticipate of what the situation ahead, what make the place the world heritage property, about its natural beauty and the livelihood of startling people ahead. That an ideal is partly true, it’s a bare truth that few mile ahead of entrance  Gate one may find himself aside of the famous and the only large unbroken crater and indeed finding the beast and pastoral people aside each other without any ill intent of threatening each other. But contrary to imaginary expectation of honourable life ahead, one may find people in struggle for existence, the place resampling the war precincts such as eastern Congo, Darfur and the like not because of the destruction caused by the man made firearms but the state of life and livelihood within the world heritage property. In realities one may find two unsaid things about the world heritage property, that the NCA is part of human society composed of extremely poor indigenous people and indeed one of the most earning class of the people in the country (NCA workforces). The indigenous people of NCA had for decades been living in an island of terrible marginalization possibly than any society in the Country. In the center of the country most economic reliable economic base, the right of indigenous people has been drooping with no assurance of tomorrow existence. The frequent threats levied against indigenous people within the NCA from the 1970’s to date as signposted in the recent secrecy dispatch and information from the NCA and several department of the central government including the highest office in the land among others is a resilient cue that certain forces have never been happy for indigenous continued presence within the NCA. They were never and will indeed not be happy and that's evident by certain act or otherwise of either NCAA or the government for decades which call nothing other than serious undertaking to carb the situation and find a long lasting solution to assure the honourable life of the indigenous people while in the NCA and that the protection of the pastoral indigenous society is the condition precedent of NCA validity and presence. Despite infinite milk of prosperity and the honey and sunlight of opportunities for  good life within the NCA, the young Indigenous people of the NCA finds themselves wandering around several cities in East and Central Africa in quest of security toil that do not even exist and not professional with them anyway. The daily ugliness about struggle for existence has transformed the spirit of hope into the tiredness of hopelessness as evident by faces of indigenous people you find within the NCA. With these in mind, serious undertakings to provide the wide range long lasting mechanism that can reassure the objective foundation of the NCA (a multiple land use context) are equally and justifiably met must be in place.

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