Life on the Edge - The Pied Piper of Eyasi

To obtain the full version of The Pied Piper of Eyasi on DVD, please go to http://www.tve.org . We've sent machines to the sun, flown to Jupiter, and have plenty to eat...thats how the Hadza tribe of Tanzania see the modern world. But they also cherish their own life, and dont want to lose it freedom, ancestral lands, no leaders. Now Baallow, one of the few educated Hadza, is trying to persuade his people it cant go on. He reckons their land rights are under threat and their children deserve the benefits of development. Life on the Edge follows Baallow as he tours the Hadzas tribal lands on his motorbike, trying to sell his message to an undecided, sometimes bewildered people. The tribe he introduces us to are among the last hunter-gatherers, still living as they did millennia ago. But they now face the biggest decision of all should they join the globalized world? Or are they better off without us?

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