Akie people

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Akie

Waakie
Total population
c. 5,268[1]
Regions with significant populations
Tanzania Manyara Region[2] (Hanang District)
Languages
Massai - adopted Akie
Religion
Traditional African religions
Related ethnic groups
Hadza, Sandawe, Ogiek - who like their relatives in Tanzania are one of the perls of originally khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherer cultures.

The Akie (sometimes called Mósiro, which is an Akie clan name, or Akiek, which is also used for the Okiek)^[3][4][5] are a Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic people living in south western Simanjiro District of Manyara Region. In 2000 the Akie population was counted at 5,268.^[1] The Akie, like other hunter-gatherer peoples in Kenya and Tanzania, are sometimes called by the derogatory and misleading term Dorobo or Wandorobo.^[2] The Akie were featured by Bruce Parry in the BBC series "Tribe" (10th episode, 2007). They live around 150 miles south east of Olduvai Gorge^[6]