Ed Stafford's Rite of Passage (2025) s01e03 Episode Script
Tanzania
(BEES BUZZING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Have we got one?
Okay, at last we've got one.
This tree is hollow
and there is a big beehive
inside the tree.
And it's just amount of
making it accessible enough
to get our hands in
and grab the honey out.
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: I'm Ed Stafford.
As an explorer and survivalist,
I've made a career out of
mucking around in the wild.
If I'm honest,
I've never really grown up.
Look at that!
So now
PILOT: Ready, guys?
ED: I've set myself a mission
to see how cultures across the world
navigate the messy business
of becoming an adult.
(ED GROANS)
ED: I believe many of us
in the modern world
have lost our sense of identity.
But I'm hoping by immersing myself
in the often-extreme trials
that young people face,
I can figure out how these rituals
make us better members
of our communities.
I've never experienced anything
even comparable in terms of pain.
By joining them on their journey,
I hope I'll learn to
become a better man
(TINIKO SPEAKING)
ED: maybe even grow up
Expelliarmus.
Okay, he wants me to jump.
I'm going to jump it now.
and successfully pass my own
"Rite of Passage."
(SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: I'm currently in northern
Tanzania's Great Rift Valley,
a vast area,
steeped in humanity's
ancient history.
I've been travelling
for 48 hours just to get here
and this is now my final leg.
A five-hour drive deep into
one of the most remote corners
of the African bush.
I'm heading to the Soqoro community,
on the fringes of Lake Eyasi.
A place often called
the cradle of mankind
and where human remains dating back
around two million years
were discovered.
I'm here to live with the Hadza
and from what I know of
their rite of passage into adulthood,
it involves expert
tracking and bush skills
to find honey and big game.
The Hadza have been
surviving on these lands
for over 50,000 years.
And are one of the last remaining
hunter-gatherer tribes
left in the world.
Okay, one of the local Hadza boys
has just come out.
It's nice to see a smiling face.
Hello, mate.
Hi, guys.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
I'm Ed.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-(GONGA SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Thank you.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
What's your name, mate?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: That's your name?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(ED LAUGHING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Chop the tree.
Cool. Nice to meet you all.
ED: Not only do I not
speak the language,
but I can barely
pronounce their names.
This could be a challenging week.
I appreciate being allowed
to come and live with you
for a small period of time
in your community.
The key thing for me
coming here is to learn
about how you guys transition
young men into the adults
and if it's okay with you,
the thing that
I'm really, really interested
in learning about is
how you hunt for the honey
and extract the honey
from wild sources?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Thank you very much, mate.
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
ED: Okay.
(DOG BARKS)
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
ED: The guys are hungry
and they've got no food
and they need to hunt.
So it's almost perfect for me.
Rather than sitting around
and all the awkwardness
of being introduced to a tribe,
we are straight out on a hunt.
Hadza camps are named after
their best hunters.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: With this community
named after Soqoro.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: His right-hand man
is 17-year-old Gonga.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(GANDIDA SPEAKING)
(GANDIDA SPEAKING)
ED: The Hadza diet
is not for picky eaters.
I reckon they like squirrel!
Consisting of over 30
different wild mammals,
including monkeys, porcupines,
badgers, and impala.
(DOG BARKING)
ED: Do you want some water?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Other end. Other end. Other end.
ED: Amazing!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
Good water.
It is good water, mate, yes.
Wow! I mean, that's so cool,
isn't it?
Look at that.
That's extraordinary.
He's cut the bottom,
drank out the bottom,
because he didn't know that
you could unscrew the top.
Why would you?
Does just show, doesn't it,
how divorced from everyday life
this place is.
Thank God, that plastic
still hasn't infiltrated
this corner of the world yet.
Nice.
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
ED: Oh, you've got quite a big
tuberous root being exposed now.
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
ED: It's good, is it?
What's it called?
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
ED: Halfway between a potato
and kind of a cucumber.
It's kind of got that watery
inside like a cucumber has,
but with the flavor
of a raw potato.
-ED: Hont-Lont-Lo.
-Hont-Lont-Lo.
What are we looking for, mate?
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
ED: Okay, cool. Looking for honey.
For a Hadza boy
to transition into manhood
and complete their rite of passage,
they must prove themselves
as a provider for the community.
So although facing an angry swarm
of bees seems daunting,
it is a primary food source
for the Hadza people.
So it's something
I must help them collect
if I am to pass my own
rite of passage.
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: The white wax
on the exterior of a bee's nest
means that the bees
are actively building new combs,
which should hopefully be
overflowing with fresh honey.
How do you get the honey out of that?
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: Wow! Okay.
With the hive more than
10 meters above the ground,
it's not exactly the kind of place
that you want to be stung by
a swarm of angry bees.
I'm not sure I particularly
want to go climbing up that one.
To make it even more precarious,
the only way to climb
is by using homemade wooden pegs.
ED: With only one squirrel
successfully hunted
and now shifting our focus to honey,
we've returned home with little food.
(HADZA WOMAN 1 SPEAKING)
ED: She looked really hungry
and very grateful with that
tuberous root got given to her.
She looked really hungry.
The Hadza's traditional
hunting grounds
have been whittled away
to only 10 percent of what it was
just 50 years ago.
Meaning less game to hunt for food.
Yeah, there's a lot
of little mouths to feed.
Not that long ago the Hadza
could easily feast on giraffes,
elephants,
and their favorite, baboons,
but that looks like
a distant memory today.
Dead posh service, this is.
Thank you, this is perfect.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
Laga means "lay down".
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
Thank you, mate.
Thank you, thank you!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
This is cool.
So basically,
this is my accommodation
for the next week.
ED: I don't want to become
another mouth to feed,
making my need to help provide honey
for this community
all the more vital.
Gonga, how many do
we need to make?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Gonga, some of the guys were saying
that there is a girl
you want to get married to?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Have you know her a long time then?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Not long. What's her name?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: For a Hadza boy to complete
their rite of passage and marry,
they must prove
to the bride's parents
that they can provide for
and protect a family.
But right now, it looks like
we're off to slay vampires.
And climbing
a 10 meter high baobab tree
to raid a hive filled with bees,
sounds just as daunting.
The beehive is right
in the crux of that.
I'd say about
10 meters off the floor.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(BEES BUZZING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: A baobab tree like this could
easily be two thousand years old.
Archeological evidence
found in this region
reveals that Hadza have lived
on these lands for over 50,000 years,
which means their ancestors
were likely hunting
and raiding beehives like this
during the stone age.
Gonga's skill level at being able to
hang on to a little peg,
while standing on a little peg,
whilst banging in a little peg
is, is crazy.
The East African lowland honeybee
is one of the most aggressive
bee species in the world,
making up half of the infamous
Africanized bee hybrid,
known as the killer bee.
He's almost at the top now though.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
(BEES BUZZING)
(HUNTER SPEAKING)
ED: One wrong move, and the bees
could swarm Gonga and us.
You can hear them up there,
they are angry.
I'd love to get stuck in and help,
but Soqoro says
this is no job for a newbie.
And this time,
I would have to agree.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Got it!
ED: Despite still being stung,
they push through the pain
to access the prized honey.
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
ED: The only problem now
is getting all the liquid gold down.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Aye, aye, aye.
Yeah, I've got it.
Got it?
Ah, ah, ah.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Ah, look at that. Beautiful!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Yeah? Are you sure?
Oh, my God, that is amazing.
Needless to say,
that is one of the best tasting
honeys I have ever tasted.
That tastes extraordinary.
To have that as part
of your natural diet.
You can see why
it is worth the effort
of making all the stakes and going up
into the tree and risking your life.
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
ED: Well done, mate.
-Congratulations, mate.
-(GONGA SPEAKING)
Did you get, did you get stung much?
Ding, ding, ding.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Get some honey down you, mate!
But this honey
isn't really for eating,
the Hadza also use it to trade
and it's going to help Gonga in
his mission to win his future wife.
What could you buy with this?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
So you can see why it's important
both as part of the rite of passage
and but also as something to trade.
And the boys are so happy!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: And the plastic bucket
of fresh honey
is a welcome boost
to the community's morale.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
Wow!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: This plastic bucket
of fresh honey
should be welcome boost
to the community's morale.
And by the end of my week here,
I will have to place my own hand
into a wild bee's nest
to provide for the community,
something I'm a little nervous about.
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
ED: How important
within your culture is honey?
Clearly, it's not just a food, is it?
You use it for trade
and stuff like that,
but how important is it?
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
Do you worry that
when the men go out hunting,
that they are not going
to come back with any food?
Because, obviously, you've got kids
to feed and young mouths to feed.
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
ED: Do any of you ever get tempted to
go live outside of Hadza community?
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
ED: Despite the challenges
of raising a family
in the African bush,
Hadza women believe their way of life
is still best for their children.
For them, survival doesn't
come from money or possessions,
but from community
and a husband who can hunt.
Gonga obviously
is looking to get married.
Um, do you think he is a good catch?
(HADZA WOMENS SPEAKING)
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
Nice.
ED: I'm already fascinated
by the Hadza
and how a young man's rite of passage
is directly connected
to the survival of the tribe,
and his future family.
Here, becoming a man
isn't just symbolic,
it's life or death.
Without barbed metal arrowheads,
Gonga can't hunt baboons.
So, we make the long trek
through the wilderness
to the area's only forge,
and I hope for our sake,
the people running it
still like honey.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(HADZA WOMENS SPEAKING)
ED: Hi. Hi, hi.
ED: This is very different.
Nice view.
The Datoga are another
of Tanzania's oldest tribes.
Their ancestors were fierce warriors
and masters at making weapons.
The neighboring tribe
appears to be blacksmiths.
We got an arrowhead being made here.
And it's all using old little
scrap bits of metal.
Incredibly simple and yet
obviously it's a skill that
the Hadza people don't have.
But what the Hadza do have is honey.
So time for a bit of bartering.
(DATAGO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(DATAGO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(DATAGO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: They are bartering.
I think Soqoro is getting offered
quite of what he was hoping
he was going to get offered.
(METAL CLINKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Happy days. Are you happy?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Excellent.
Twenty arrowheads and two knives.
And he gets a pot of honey.
Everyone's a winner.
It's been a successful mission
and Gonga now has the tools he needs
to prove himself on a baboon hunt,
but first, he wants me to meet
the girl he hopes to marry.
Everything in terms
of honey collection,
potentially baboon hunting,
it's all focused towards
Gonga getting married.
So, it's time to meet
the lady herself.
The Mkoa Boma community is home
to other hunters and their families,
but with less than 400 Hadza living
a traditional life in the region,
every camp is like
an extended family,
with many Hadza being married
or related to one another.
Which is your girlfriend?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: In the middle?
She's beautiful, she's beautiful.
Hi, lovely to meet you.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: What do you think of Gonga
for your daughter?
(SHAKWA SPEAKING)
Yeah, yeah.
ED: While Shumu's mum
seems sold on the idea,
her father looks
a little less convinced.
In general, how does a Hadza man
prove his worthiness?
Um, if he was to want to marry a lady
in another community,
how does he prove himself?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
ED: It seems like
a bit of a tall order,
especially since all I've seen so far
has been scrappy little squirrels.
But I guess some traditions die hard.
Baboon it is then!
So, if Gonga wants a wife, it seems
he's got to cough up a baboon
and a decent amount of honey.
Is it true that the rump
of the baboon is the best part?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
ED: You understood me, didn't you?
Didn't need a translator then.
And although I'm a bit
of a newbie out here,
I hope I can help him
on his own Hadza rite of passage.
ED: My time with the Soqoro community
is quickly running out,
so now, focus turns
to Gonga's rite of passage
and helping him get his Hadza bride.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
-ED: Simple as that.
-GONGA: Yeah.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: And the first thing we need
is not an engagement ring,
but an arrow deadly enough
to bring down a baboon.
Why is it for baboons
you need these barbs?
Do they pull the arrows out?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: The arrowhead is lethal,
but without feathers it won't fly.
And when your future depends
on the success of a hunt,
there's no room for error.
So keep going round that?
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: These are some of
the happiest people
that I have met in a long, long time,
and they have nothing.
You really do not need stuff
in your life.
They have a bow and arrow,
they have a knife,
even this shelter,
the home that they are sleeping in,
is a temporary one
that will work for the season.
And yet it's experience,
knowledge and skill level
that is enabling them
to actually glean an existence
from the environment.
Being able to craft tools,
being able to make weapons,
being able to know
all of the different
hunting techniques that they need,
and by putting it all together
you free yourself
from the need to accumulate stuff,
and I think that's the key.
Happy life!
(LAUGHS)
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
Thank you, mate.
Thank you so much!
Okay, I didn't do it all myself,
but I consider that to be
my first Hadza arrow.
Thank you, mate.
Happy days.
Poisoned arrow is ready,
we're all set to hunt baboons.
ED: Been walking about
two hours from camp now.
It's a long way away
and the boys are on a mission.
To stand the greatest
chance of success,
we are heading to new hunting grounds
an eight kilometer hike away
under the rising African sun.
So this is baboon country
and it's stunning,
it's so different to the
horizontal scrub.
If I was a baboon,
I'd be hanging out
on these rocks up here,
classic baboon territory.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Spotting movement on the horizon,
Gonga gives the signal
and as we head down into the valley.
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: All of a sudden, the hunt is on.
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: That was definitely contact
with a troop of baboons.
There's shouts from that direction,
that direction, and that direction.
Baboon.
In the chaos of the chase
the group has splintered.
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: I better keep up,
because I do not want to
get lost alone out here.
The guys are hot on the trail
of a baboon or a troop of baboons.
I'm just struggling
to even keep up with them.
Okay.
Baboon.
Right in the top of that
crescent of that tree.
Okay, it's coming down,
it's coming down.
That was a huge baboon.
Exactly what Gonga's
future father-in-law wanted.
And that big ass baboon
is looking quite impossible.
Okay, there is two.
There is two baboons
moving left to right
through that undergrowth there.
(HADZA MAN 1 SPEAKING)
They're closing in on them.
This is it,
with Hont-Lont-Lo
ambushing the baboons,
with the dogs and Gonga closing in,
we're moments away
from a possible kill.
(HADZA MAN 1 SPEAKING)
ED: But once again,
confusion kicks in.
(HANKAA SPEAKING)
ED: Gonga is, he is constantly
the one right at the front.
He is one that spearheading
the whole operation.
But because he is so upfront,
I'm hardly getting a glimpse of him.
He's the one leading the charge.
He is the best hunter
out of this lot.
Then suddenly,
the silence is deafening.
ED: By the time I catch up
with the rest of the group,
I can immediately tell
it's not good news.
(GOKU SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
What is very cool
is that this is Gonga,
wanting to get married,
found a girl he likes,
wants to impress her parents,
and all his mates are very happy
to turn out with him
at stupid o'clock in the morning
to go hunting.
That's pretty cool, isn't it?
That's what mates are for.
ED: Failing to bag a baboon
is the often-harsh reality
for modern Hadza.
So we're now relying
on finding a cache of honey
to restore some of Gonga's fortune
and save his rite of passage.
(WHISTLING)
ED: But with light quickly fading,
time is not on our side.
We are losing time
in terms of getting the honey.
It's part and parcel
of what Gonga needs to provide,
and therefore,
if we can just nail that
that would be good.
But all isn't lost,
when Gonga is leading the brigade.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Uh-huh!
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Have we got one?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Nice, okay. At last, we've got one.
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: Tree is hollow and there
is a big beehive inside the tree.
And just amount of making it
accessible enough
to get our hands in
and grab the honey out.
I'm going to have a go
at trying to extract
as much as this myself as possible.
I really want to nail this for Gonga,
and make sure he doesn't go back
to his future bride empty handed.
Success would also be
a massive boost for me,
to at least partially
complete my rite of passage,
as one of the primary harvesters
of this wild honey.
Without looking at the sun,
I reckon we've got about
40 minutes of daylight.
With the clock ticking,
it's now or never.
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: Okay, fire going.
Stage one complete,
but this beehive is not going
to be an easy one to get into.
It's very enclosed
and the bees
are very well-protected.
Okay, so in here, yeah?
-(GONGA SPEAKING)
-ED: Okay.
ED: It's brutal work,
and the longer we take,
the more likely
we are to aggravate the bees
and potentially cause a swarm.
But with Gonga's help,
we gain access to the hive.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: The boys don't think they, uh,
can access enough of the honey
from the hole that we cut.
We need to open up
the secondary hole.
With the beehive still deep
inside the tree
and the light fading fast,
the other boys also step in to help.
I came here thinking, you know what,
I want to prove that I can
get the honey out myself.
But as I'm chopping away
and the boys are standing around,
I'm thinking, that's not the way
the Hadza do things.
These boys are a group of mates,
they help each other,
they all muck in,
they all put the effort in.
And not because I'm being lazy,
but I'm going to embrace
that team spirit.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
(AXE THUDDING)
ED: Gonga's just got stung,
I can see.
It looks like the smoke
from the fire I made
has done its job
in subduing the bees.
This is it.
Time to get some for myself.
Okay.
(ED GROANS)
-ED: Well done, mate!
-(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: That is beautiful.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
It's all right.
ED: Everyone has now
had a lot of stings.
It's got to the stage
where the honey is out,
but the bees, they just go for you.
I've probably got
about 20 or 30 stings.
There's this crazy pleasure-pain
thing going on here at the moment.
Everyone is high on sugar
and in excruciating pain
at the same time.
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
(INDISTINCT)
That was just speaking
without moving his lips at all.
(ED LAUGHS)
Worth the pain, worth the pain.
ED: I would say that's a big success,
it's not a bad haul.
I'm not putting my hand
in there again.
Will your future father-in-law
be happy with that?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Nice one, Gonga.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
ED: With the honey bagged
and night upon us,
we have no choice but to spend
the night sleeping rough in the bush.
What a day!
I mean that was honestly one of
the most rewarding days of my life.
Um
We have honey to speed
Gonga's wedding on its way.
Today has just shown me
it's all about team.
This isn't a one-man effort.
This isn't Gonga demonstrating
his prowess on his own.
Clearly, he's one of the most
competent in the whole group,
but it isn't about that to the Hadza.
It's about sticking together,
it's about turning up for each other
and it's about having fun.
And they have done all three of those
in bucket loads.
ED: Morning,
and with everyone from the community
gathered for our return,
this is the moment of truth.
Has Gonga done enough to win the
blessing of his girlfriend's parents?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DARABE SPEAKING)
ED: We tried to get a baboon,
but I'm afraid it went away.
We didn't get it in the end.
ED: Gonga has gone a little bit shy.
Maybe he's worried about the fact
that he hasn't got a baboon.
I think he is just feeling
the public humiliation a little bit.
They're all just tucking into
the honey, that's so amazing!
ED: Are you happy with the honey
Gonga brought back?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
Does Gonga stand a chance
with your daughter then?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
ED: All right, mate.
Enjoy your honey.
Well done. It's a lovely day.
I'm not going to shake your hand
because you're covered in--
No, I'm not gonna.
Like they say,
anything easy isn't worth having.
So hopefully on Gonga's
next baboon hunt,
he can successfully secure
the hand of his girlfriend.
If we got a baboon
that would have been amazing,
but, you know, you can't get a baboon
every time you go hunting, can you?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Yeah, they are really happy.
And maybe you are a step closer
to marrying their daughter, no?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Mate, can I just say thank you
for giving me your time.
For allowing me to live
with you guys, thank you.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Nice one, mate.
Give us a hug.
Thank you, mate,
and good luck with everything.
(SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: This is such a positive end to
quite an incredible journey really.
Gonga is a step closer to being
able to marry the girl of his dreams.
Everybody here is happy.
I think they are all slightly high
on honey again,
but that's kind of cool in itself.
I've learnt so much
over the past few days.
(SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: They call these guys
the happy tribe, and you can see why.
They have an innate joy within them
and I do think that
comes from living a simpler life.
And I don't mean that
in a patronizing way.
I mean that in an inspirational way.
I think the simpler we can
all make our lives, the better.
I constantly look at communities
like this
and worry about their future.
They don't think like that,
it's all about today.
It's all about feeding themselves
and their children today.
And that again, spills into
the whole happiness thing.
I just think don't think
worrying about the future
is in the Hadza at all.
So no,
they are not bothered about it.
They are happy.
Finger's crossed
Gonga's going to get the girl.
Obviously, I think he will.
He's a charming man and I think
it's more to do with his cheeky grin
than it is to do with his proficiency
in baboon hunting.
But, um, whatever it is,
I wish him all the best
and, um, I'm sure he's
gonna have a very happy life.
(SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(ALL CHEERING)
(HADZA MAN 2 SPEAKING)
ED: You can see yourself.
(HADZA MAN 1 SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(HADZA MAN 3 SPEAKING)
Thanks, mate.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Have we got one?
Okay, at last we've got one.
This tree is hollow
and there is a big beehive
inside the tree.
And it's just amount of
making it accessible enough
to get our hands in
and grab the honey out.
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: I'm Ed Stafford.
As an explorer and survivalist,
I've made a career out of
mucking around in the wild.
If I'm honest,
I've never really grown up.
Look at that!
So now
PILOT: Ready, guys?
ED: I've set myself a mission
to see how cultures across the world
navigate the messy business
of becoming an adult.
(ED GROANS)
ED: I believe many of us
in the modern world
have lost our sense of identity.
But I'm hoping by immersing myself
in the often-extreme trials
that young people face,
I can figure out how these rituals
make us better members
of our communities.
I've never experienced anything
even comparable in terms of pain.
By joining them on their journey,
I hope I'll learn to
become a better man
(TINIKO SPEAKING)
ED: maybe even grow up
Expelliarmus.
Okay, he wants me to jump.
I'm going to jump it now.
and successfully pass my own
"Rite of Passage."
(SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: I'm currently in northern
Tanzania's Great Rift Valley,
a vast area,
steeped in humanity's
ancient history.
I've been travelling
for 48 hours just to get here
and this is now my final leg.
A five-hour drive deep into
one of the most remote corners
of the African bush.
I'm heading to the Soqoro community,
on the fringes of Lake Eyasi.
A place often called
the cradle of mankind
and where human remains dating back
around two million years
were discovered.
I'm here to live with the Hadza
and from what I know of
their rite of passage into adulthood,
it involves expert
tracking and bush skills
to find honey and big game.
The Hadza have been
surviving on these lands
for over 50,000 years.
And are one of the last remaining
hunter-gatherer tribes
left in the world.
Okay, one of the local Hadza boys
has just come out.
It's nice to see a smiling face.
Hello, mate.
Hi, guys.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
I'm Ed.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-(GONGA SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Thank you.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
What's your name, mate?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: That's your name?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(ED LAUGHING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Chop the tree.
Cool. Nice to meet you all.
ED: Not only do I not
speak the language,
but I can barely
pronounce their names.
This could be a challenging week.
I appreciate being allowed
to come and live with you
for a small period of time
in your community.
The key thing for me
coming here is to learn
about how you guys transition
young men into the adults
and if it's okay with you,
the thing that
I'm really, really interested
in learning about is
how you hunt for the honey
and extract the honey
from wild sources?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Thank you very much, mate.
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
ED: Okay.
(DOG BARKS)
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
ED: The guys are hungry
and they've got no food
and they need to hunt.
So it's almost perfect for me.
Rather than sitting around
and all the awkwardness
of being introduced to a tribe,
we are straight out on a hunt.
Hadza camps are named after
their best hunters.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: With this community
named after Soqoro.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: His right-hand man
is 17-year-old Gonga.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(GANDIDA SPEAKING)
(GANDIDA SPEAKING)
ED: The Hadza diet
is not for picky eaters.
I reckon they like squirrel!
Consisting of over 30
different wild mammals,
including monkeys, porcupines,
badgers, and impala.
(DOG BARKING)
ED: Do you want some water?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Other end. Other end. Other end.
ED: Amazing!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
Good water.
It is good water, mate, yes.
Wow! I mean, that's so cool,
isn't it?
Look at that.
That's extraordinary.
He's cut the bottom,
drank out the bottom,
because he didn't know that
you could unscrew the top.
Why would you?
Does just show, doesn't it,
how divorced from everyday life
this place is.
Thank God, that plastic
still hasn't infiltrated
this corner of the world yet.
Nice.
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
ED: Oh, you've got quite a big
tuberous root being exposed now.
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
ED: It's good, is it?
What's it called?
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
ED: Halfway between a potato
and kind of a cucumber.
It's kind of got that watery
inside like a cucumber has,
but with the flavor
of a raw potato.
-ED: Hont-Lont-Lo.
-Hont-Lont-Lo.
What are we looking for, mate?
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
ED: Okay, cool. Looking for honey.
For a Hadza boy
to transition into manhood
and complete their rite of passage,
they must prove themselves
as a provider for the community.
So although facing an angry swarm
of bees seems daunting,
it is a primary food source
for the Hadza people.
So it's something
I must help them collect
if I am to pass my own
rite of passage.
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: The white wax
on the exterior of a bee's nest
means that the bees
are actively building new combs,
which should hopefully be
overflowing with fresh honey.
How do you get the honey out of that?
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: Wow! Okay.
With the hive more than
10 meters above the ground,
it's not exactly the kind of place
that you want to be stung by
a swarm of angry bees.
I'm not sure I particularly
want to go climbing up that one.
To make it even more precarious,
the only way to climb
is by using homemade wooden pegs.
ED: With only one squirrel
successfully hunted
and now shifting our focus to honey,
we've returned home with little food.
(HADZA WOMAN 1 SPEAKING)
ED: She looked really hungry
and very grateful with that
tuberous root got given to her.
She looked really hungry.
The Hadza's traditional
hunting grounds
have been whittled away
to only 10 percent of what it was
just 50 years ago.
Meaning less game to hunt for food.
Yeah, there's a lot
of little mouths to feed.
Not that long ago the Hadza
could easily feast on giraffes,
elephants,
and their favorite, baboons,
but that looks like
a distant memory today.
Dead posh service, this is.
Thank you, this is perfect.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
Laga means "lay down".
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
Thank you, mate.
Thank you, thank you!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
This is cool.
So basically,
this is my accommodation
for the next week.
ED: I don't want to become
another mouth to feed,
making my need to help provide honey
for this community
all the more vital.
Gonga, how many do
we need to make?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Gonga, some of the guys were saying
that there is a girl
you want to get married to?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Have you know her a long time then?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Not long. What's her name?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: For a Hadza boy to complete
their rite of passage and marry,
they must prove
to the bride's parents
that they can provide for
and protect a family.
But right now, it looks like
we're off to slay vampires.
And climbing
a 10 meter high baobab tree
to raid a hive filled with bees,
sounds just as daunting.
The beehive is right
in the crux of that.
I'd say about
10 meters off the floor.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(BEES BUZZING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: A baobab tree like this could
easily be two thousand years old.
Archeological evidence
found in this region
reveals that Hadza have lived
on these lands for over 50,000 years,
which means their ancestors
were likely hunting
and raiding beehives like this
during the stone age.
Gonga's skill level at being able to
hang on to a little peg,
while standing on a little peg,
whilst banging in a little peg
is, is crazy.
The East African lowland honeybee
is one of the most aggressive
bee species in the world,
making up half of the infamous
Africanized bee hybrid,
known as the killer bee.
He's almost at the top now though.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
(BEES BUZZING)
(HUNTER SPEAKING)
ED: One wrong move, and the bees
could swarm Gonga and us.
You can hear them up there,
they are angry.
I'd love to get stuck in and help,
but Soqoro says
this is no job for a newbie.
And this time,
I would have to agree.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Got it!
ED: Despite still being stung,
they push through the pain
to access the prized honey.
(TEGECHE SPEAKING)
ED: The only problem now
is getting all the liquid gold down.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Aye, aye, aye.
Yeah, I've got it.
Got it?
Ah, ah, ah.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Ah, look at that. Beautiful!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Yeah? Are you sure?
Oh, my God, that is amazing.
Needless to say,
that is one of the best tasting
honeys I have ever tasted.
That tastes extraordinary.
To have that as part
of your natural diet.
You can see why
it is worth the effort
of making all the stakes and going up
into the tree and risking your life.
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
ED: Well done, mate.
-Congratulations, mate.
-(GONGA SPEAKING)
Did you get, did you get stung much?
Ding, ding, ding.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Get some honey down you, mate!
But this honey
isn't really for eating,
the Hadza also use it to trade
and it's going to help Gonga in
his mission to win his future wife.
What could you buy with this?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
So you can see why it's important
both as part of the rite of passage
and but also as something to trade.
And the boys are so happy!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: And the plastic bucket
of fresh honey
is a welcome boost
to the community's morale.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
Wow!
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: This plastic bucket
of fresh honey
should be welcome boost
to the community's morale.
And by the end of my week here,
I will have to place my own hand
into a wild bee's nest
to provide for the community,
something I'm a little nervous about.
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
ED: How important
within your culture is honey?
Clearly, it's not just a food, is it?
You use it for trade
and stuff like that,
but how important is it?
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
Do you worry that
when the men go out hunting,
that they are not going
to come back with any food?
Because, obviously, you've got kids
to feed and young mouths to feed.
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
ED: Do any of you ever get tempted to
go live outside of Hadza community?
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
ED: Despite the challenges
of raising a family
in the African bush,
Hadza women believe their way of life
is still best for their children.
For them, survival doesn't
come from money or possessions,
but from community
and a husband who can hunt.
Gonga obviously
is looking to get married.
Um, do you think he is a good catch?
(HADZA WOMENS SPEAKING)
(TSOYA SPEAKING)
Nice.
ED: I'm already fascinated
by the Hadza
and how a young man's rite of passage
is directly connected
to the survival of the tribe,
and his future family.
Here, becoming a man
isn't just symbolic,
it's life or death.
Without barbed metal arrowheads,
Gonga can't hunt baboons.
So, we make the long trek
through the wilderness
to the area's only forge,
and I hope for our sake,
the people running it
still like honey.
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(HADZA WOMENS SPEAKING)
ED: Hi. Hi, hi.
ED: This is very different.
Nice view.
The Datoga are another
of Tanzania's oldest tribes.
Their ancestors were fierce warriors
and masters at making weapons.
The neighboring tribe
appears to be blacksmiths.
We got an arrowhead being made here.
And it's all using old little
scrap bits of metal.
Incredibly simple and yet
obviously it's a skill that
the Hadza people don't have.
But what the Hadza do have is honey.
So time for a bit of bartering.
(DATAGO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(DATAGO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
(DATAGO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: They are bartering.
I think Soqoro is getting offered
quite of what he was hoping
he was going to get offered.
(METAL CLINKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Happy days. Are you happy?
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: Excellent.
Twenty arrowheads and two knives.
And he gets a pot of honey.
Everyone's a winner.
It's been a successful mission
and Gonga now has the tools he needs
to prove himself on a baboon hunt,
but first, he wants me to meet
the girl he hopes to marry.
Everything in terms
of honey collection,
potentially baboon hunting,
it's all focused towards
Gonga getting married.
So, it's time to meet
the lady herself.
The Mkoa Boma community is home
to other hunters and their families,
but with less than 400 Hadza living
a traditional life in the region,
every camp is like
an extended family,
with many Hadza being married
or related to one another.
Which is your girlfriend?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: In the middle?
She's beautiful, she's beautiful.
Hi, lovely to meet you.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: What do you think of Gonga
for your daughter?
(SHAKWA SPEAKING)
Yeah, yeah.
ED: While Shumu's mum
seems sold on the idea,
her father looks
a little less convinced.
In general, how does a Hadza man
prove his worthiness?
Um, if he was to want to marry a lady
in another community,
how does he prove himself?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
ED: It seems like
a bit of a tall order,
especially since all I've seen so far
has been scrappy little squirrels.
But I guess some traditions die hard.
Baboon it is then!
So, if Gonga wants a wife, it seems
he's got to cough up a baboon
and a decent amount of honey.
Is it true that the rump
of the baboon is the best part?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
ED: You understood me, didn't you?
Didn't need a translator then.
And although I'm a bit
of a newbie out here,
I hope I can help him
on his own Hadza rite of passage.
ED: My time with the Soqoro community
is quickly running out,
so now, focus turns
to Gonga's rite of passage
and helping him get his Hadza bride.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
-ED: Simple as that.
-GONGA: Yeah.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: And the first thing we need
is not an engagement ring,
but an arrow deadly enough
to bring down a baboon.
Why is it for baboons
you need these barbs?
Do they pull the arrows out?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: The arrowhead is lethal,
but without feathers it won't fly.
And when your future depends
on the success of a hunt,
there's no room for error.
So keep going round that?
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(SOQORO SPEAKING)
ED: These are some of
the happiest people
that I have met in a long, long time,
and they have nothing.
You really do not need stuff
in your life.
They have a bow and arrow,
they have a knife,
even this shelter,
the home that they are sleeping in,
is a temporary one
that will work for the season.
And yet it's experience,
knowledge and skill level
that is enabling them
to actually glean an existence
from the environment.
Being able to craft tools,
being able to make weapons,
being able to know
all of the different
hunting techniques that they need,
and by putting it all together
you free yourself
from the need to accumulate stuff,
and I think that's the key.
Happy life!
(LAUGHS)
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
Thank you, mate.
Thank you so much!
Okay, I didn't do it all myself,
but I consider that to be
my first Hadza arrow.
Thank you, mate.
Happy days.
Poisoned arrow is ready,
we're all set to hunt baboons.
ED: Been walking about
two hours from camp now.
It's a long way away
and the boys are on a mission.
To stand the greatest
chance of success,
we are heading to new hunting grounds
an eight kilometer hike away
under the rising African sun.
So this is baboon country
and it's stunning,
it's so different to the
horizontal scrub.
If I was a baboon,
I'd be hanging out
on these rocks up here,
classic baboon territory.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Spotting movement on the horizon,
Gonga gives the signal
and as we head down into the valley.
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: All of a sudden, the hunt is on.
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: That was definitely contact
with a troop of baboons.
There's shouts from that direction,
that direction, and that direction.
Baboon.
In the chaos of the chase
the group has splintered.
(HANTLA SPEAKING)
ED: I better keep up,
because I do not want to
get lost alone out here.
The guys are hot on the trail
of a baboon or a troop of baboons.
I'm just struggling
to even keep up with them.
Okay.
Baboon.
Right in the top of that
crescent of that tree.
Okay, it's coming down,
it's coming down.
That was a huge baboon.
Exactly what Gonga's
future father-in-law wanted.
And that big ass baboon
is looking quite impossible.
Okay, there is two.
There is two baboons
moving left to right
through that undergrowth there.
(HADZA MAN 1 SPEAKING)
They're closing in on them.
This is it,
with Hont-Lont-Lo
ambushing the baboons,
with the dogs and Gonga closing in,
we're moments away
from a possible kill.
(HADZA MAN 1 SPEAKING)
ED: But once again,
confusion kicks in.
(HANKAA SPEAKING)
ED: Gonga is, he is constantly
the one right at the front.
He is one that spearheading
the whole operation.
But because he is so upfront,
I'm hardly getting a glimpse of him.
He's the one leading the charge.
He is the best hunter
out of this lot.
Then suddenly,
the silence is deafening.
ED: By the time I catch up
with the rest of the group,
I can immediately tell
it's not good news.
(GOKU SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(HONT-LONT-LO SPEAKING)
What is very cool
is that this is Gonga,
wanting to get married,
found a girl he likes,
wants to impress her parents,
and all his mates are very happy
to turn out with him
at stupid o'clock in the morning
to go hunting.
That's pretty cool, isn't it?
That's what mates are for.
ED: Failing to bag a baboon
is the often-harsh reality
for modern Hadza.
So we're now relying
on finding a cache of honey
to restore some of Gonga's fortune
and save his rite of passage.
(WHISTLING)
ED: But with light quickly fading,
time is not on our side.
We are losing time
in terms of getting the honey.
It's part and parcel
of what Gonga needs to provide,
and therefore,
if we can just nail that
that would be good.
But all isn't lost,
when Gonga is leading the brigade.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Uh-huh!
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Have we got one?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Nice, okay. At last, we've got one.
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: Tree is hollow and there
is a big beehive inside the tree.
And just amount of making it
accessible enough
to get our hands in
and grab the honey out.
I'm going to have a go
at trying to extract
as much as this myself as possible.
I really want to nail this for Gonga,
and make sure he doesn't go back
to his future bride empty handed.
Success would also be
a massive boost for me,
to at least partially
complete my rite of passage,
as one of the primary harvesters
of this wild honey.
Without looking at the sun,
I reckon we've got about
40 minutes of daylight.
With the clock ticking,
it's now or never.
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: Okay, fire going.
Stage one complete,
but this beehive is not going
to be an easy one to get into.
It's very enclosed
and the bees
are very well-protected.
Okay, so in here, yeah?
-(GONGA SPEAKING)
-ED: Okay.
ED: It's brutal work,
and the longer we take,
the more likely
we are to aggravate the bees
and potentially cause a swarm.
But with Gonga's help,
we gain access to the hive.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(BEES BUZZING)
ED: The boys don't think they, uh,
can access enough of the honey
from the hole that we cut.
We need to open up
the secondary hole.
With the beehive still deep
inside the tree
and the light fading fast,
the other boys also step in to help.
I came here thinking, you know what,
I want to prove that I can
get the honey out myself.
But as I'm chopping away
and the boys are standing around,
I'm thinking, that's not the way
the Hadza do things.
These boys are a group of mates,
they help each other,
they all muck in,
they all put the effort in.
And not because I'm being lazy,
but I'm going to embrace
that team spirit.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
(AXE THUDDING)
ED: Gonga's just got stung,
I can see.
It looks like the smoke
from the fire I made
has done its job
in subduing the bees.
This is it.
Time to get some for myself.
Okay.
(ED GROANS)
-ED: Well done, mate!
-(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: That is beautiful.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
It's all right.
ED: Everyone has now
had a lot of stings.
It's got to the stage
where the honey is out,
but the bees, they just go for you.
I've probably got
about 20 or 30 stings.
There's this crazy pleasure-pain
thing going on here at the moment.
Everyone is high on sugar
and in excruciating pain
at the same time.
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
(INDISTINCT)
That was just speaking
without moving his lips at all.
(ED LAUGHS)
Worth the pain, worth the pain.
ED: I would say that's a big success,
it's not a bad haul.
I'm not putting my hand
in there again.
Will your future father-in-law
be happy with that?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Nice one, Gonga.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC)
ED: With the honey bagged
and night upon us,
we have no choice but to spend
the night sleeping rough in the bush.
What a day!
I mean that was honestly one of
the most rewarding days of my life.
Um
We have honey to speed
Gonga's wedding on its way.
Today has just shown me
it's all about team.
This isn't a one-man effort.
This isn't Gonga demonstrating
his prowess on his own.
Clearly, he's one of the most
competent in the whole group,
but it isn't about that to the Hadza.
It's about sticking together,
it's about turning up for each other
and it's about having fun.
And they have done all three of those
in bucket loads.
ED: Morning,
and with everyone from the community
gathered for our return,
this is the moment of truth.
Has Gonga done enough to win the
blessing of his girlfriend's parents?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DARABE SPEAKING)
ED: We tried to get a baboon,
but I'm afraid it went away.
We didn't get it in the end.
ED: Gonga has gone a little bit shy.
Maybe he's worried about the fact
that he hasn't got a baboon.
I think he is just feeling
the public humiliation a little bit.
They're all just tucking into
the honey, that's so amazing!
ED: Are you happy with the honey
Gonga brought back?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
Does Gonga stand a chance
with your daughter then?
(DARABE SPEAKING)
ED: All right, mate.
Enjoy your honey.
Well done. It's a lovely day.
I'm not going to shake your hand
because you're covered in--
No, I'm not gonna.
Like they say,
anything easy isn't worth having.
So hopefully on Gonga's
next baboon hunt,
he can successfully secure
the hand of his girlfriend.
If we got a baboon
that would have been amazing,
but, you know, you can't get a baboon
every time you go hunting, can you?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Yeah, they are really happy.
And maybe you are a step closer
to marrying their daughter, no?
(GONGA SPEAKING)
Mate, can I just say thank you
for giving me your time.
For allowing me to live
with you guys, thank you.
(GONGA SPEAKING)
ED: Nice one, mate.
Give us a hug.
Thank you, mate,
and good luck with everything.
(SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: This is such a positive end to
quite an incredible journey really.
Gonga is a step closer to being
able to marry the girl of his dreams.
Everybody here is happy.
I think they are all slightly high
on honey again,
but that's kind of cool in itself.
I've learnt so much
over the past few days.
(SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: They call these guys
the happy tribe, and you can see why.
They have an innate joy within them
and I do think that
comes from living a simpler life.
And I don't mean that
in a patronizing way.
I mean that in an inspirational way.
I think the simpler we can
all make our lives, the better.
I constantly look at communities
like this
and worry about their future.
They don't think like that,
it's all about today.
It's all about feeding themselves
and their children today.
And that again, spills into
the whole happiness thing.
I just think don't think
worrying about the future
is in the Hadza at all.
So no,
they are not bothered about it.
They are happy.
Finger's crossed
Gonga's going to get the girl.
Obviously, I think he will.
He's a charming man and I think
it's more to do with his cheeky grin
than it is to do with his proficiency
in baboon hunting.
But, um, whatever it is,
I wish him all the best
and, um, I'm sure he's
gonna have a very happy life.
(SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(ALL CHEERING)
(HADZA MAN 2 SPEAKING)
ED: You can see yourself.
(HADZA MAN 1 SPEAKING)
(GONGA SPEAKING)
(HADZA MAN 3 SPEAKING)
Thanks, mate.