Having done a little amount of research into the word Bantu i have found that it is a term which refers to similar languages spoken in central africa. it's literal meaning is 'people'. it covers many different ethnic groups and countries. I have also found out that it has offensive connotations as it was used during the Apartheid, clearly i do not want my advert to be aligned with this event so i will not be referring to the term in my advert and i will find a more specific cultural group to follow.

the Hadza people are a small group hunter gathers from northern central Tanzania they seem like a very intresting group of people but i am pretty certain that they dont gather marula fruit for Amarula. they do however gather the fruit and seeds as described by Frank W. Marlowe and Julia C. Berbesque,

To be able to show the relationship between foods across all four regions of Hadzaland, we have ignored one important food, the marula fruit, which is available only in Dunduiya, the region to the West of Lake Eyasi (with the exception of a tiny bit of Mangola). In Dun- duiya, the baboons eat the fruit before it even gets fully ripe to preempt the Hadza. They then pass the large seeds on top of large rocks where they sleep. The Hadza go and collect these seeds after they have dried and then pound them open with hammerstones.

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