INTRODUCTION
Pastorelists and Hunter-Gatherers Communities in Tanzania have been exposed to
massive evictions countrywide beginning the year 2006 to date. The national wide
campaign to evict pastoralists implemented under the government strategy to protect
the environment targeted only Maasai, Barbaig, Sukuma and Tatoga as well as
Hunter-Gatherers, the Hadzabe and Dorobo l. In all areas where the evictions were
implemented (Usangu-Ihefu, Kilosa, Mvomero, Ulanga, Nkasi, Mpanda, Same, Mwanga,
Yaeda chini-Mbulu, Chalinze, Bagamoyo and Loliondo pastoralists and hunter-gatherers
are a minorities'.
The evictions took place based on the fact that political representation of pastoralists
and Hunter-Gatherers at local and national levels does not exist or if exists it is weak.
Political representations at local government authority and parliaments level is based on
majority vote, hence absence of political representatives' at ward and parliamentary
levels' for pastoralists and hunter-gatherers3.
The political arrangement in Tanzania made it difficult for pastoralists,to influence
political, economic as well as socio-cultural decisions of interest to their survival as a
people in the contemporary Tanzanian society. Lack of political influence among
pastoralists and hunter-gatherers of Tanzania subjected them to marginalization and
discriminative practices in accessing social-cultural and economic resources for their
development. A number of political statements have been made high level national
leaders that further political, economic and social cultural discrimination'.
ABSENCE OF POLITICAL WILL ON THE PART OF THE STATE CREATING AN
ENVIRONMENT OF EFFECTIVE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION THROUGH.OBSERVATION OF
HUMAN. RIGHTS