The Dassanech number about 13,000 and live throughout the delta area of the Omo River in various sized villages, spread over numerous islands.
Although they consider themselves pastoralists, they also practice flood retreat cultivation on the vast expanses of the delta.
Over the years, during periods of drought, the Dassanech hosted members of different tribes seeking relief from hunger.
Thus their cultural practices aremore related those of the Kenyan Samburu and Rendille tribes with whom they share the custom of male and female circumcision. |
