A member of a nomadic hunting people of East Africa, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania.
From Maasai and other Bantu languages, 'dorobo' means 'the poor ones' or 'those without cattle,' historically referring to hunter-gatherer communities who did not practice pastoralism like their neighboring groups.
The Dorobo people demonstrate how a group's self-identity can be rooted in their economic practices—the name itself reflects pastoral societies' perspective on hunting cultures, showing how language captures historical relationships between peoples.
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