What do you know about pastoralists communities of Africa?

(i) In Africa, where over half of the world’s pastoral population lives, even today 22 million Africans depend on some form of pastoral activity for their livelihood.
(ii) They include communities like Bedouins, Berbers, Maasai, Somali, Boran and Turkana.
(iii) Most of them now live in the semi-arid grasslands or arid deserts where rained agriculture is difficult.
(iv) They raise cattle, camels, goats, sheep and donkeys; and they sell milk, meat, animal skin and wool. (v) Some of them also earn through trade and transport, others combine pastoral activity with agriculture, still others do a variety of odd jobs to supplement their meagre and uncertain earnings from pastoralism.