A Maasai man went viral after refusing a head wash and massage from a female barber, stating that a woman cannot touch his head The female barber attempted to convince him to accept the massage ...
A parachutist going by @duncanmn0102 on TikTok shared a video of a Maasai man confronting him He landed on land owned by the community, and the man demanded payment before letting him go However ...
During these three interrelated rites of passage, a group or age-set of Maasai boys pass together from being children to being morans (warriors), then adults and then elders. Enkipaata is a ...
Elizabeth Simaloi, 25, and Joyce Tikoiyan, 23 were all smiles during the ceremony as they stood on either side of their man in a one-of-a-kind ceremony. Mako, however, revealed that he might not ...
When a person died at the homestead (enkang’) the Maasai would vacate that house (enkaji) and move to another one. They would pay a man who had no family known in Maa as Olkirikoi to remove the ...
"We will fight for our land until the end" reads a sign by a Maasai woman in 2013 More than 100 Maasai huts in Tanzania have been allegedly burned down by game reserve authorities near the ...
Some of the more than 110,000 Maasai tribespeople have moved already - AFP Maasai tribespeople are being uprooted to make way for lucrative carbon credit and conservation schemes, activists say.
In recent years, the Maasai of the Ngorongoro district – a region renowned for abundant wildlife and the iconic Ngorongoro Crater – have been the target of these evictions. They’ve faced ...
Young Maasai girls in rural Kenya don’t always have the opportunity to go to school. These girls are often at greater risk ...
After lunch, there will be a guided walk exploring wildlife, wild herbs, medicinal plants, and foraged food with a local Maasai medicine man and Cottar’s Safaris’ ethnobotanist to discover the ...
In recent years, the Maasai of the Ngorongoro district have been the target of evictions. Tanzania has a long and troubling history of evicting communities from their lands. This has happened ...