Actively immersing yourself in a foreign culture and becoming a participant instead of an observer is a powerful way to ...

When a Maasai girl is in her early teens, she participates in a series of rituals that lead to her becoming, in the eyes of the tribe, a woman. In one of those rituals (pictured below) her “girl” hair ...

At that time it was home to about 8,000 people. Over time, successive policies neglected and deliberately undermined the interests of the Maasai community. This has been happening for more than ...

What’s been holding the forest together so far is the traditional Maasai religion, culture and community-based conservation. But life is changing in the Loita Forest, worrying traditional ...

My documentary analyzes changing cultural ways in a way that does not negatively affect the practices and values of the culture itself. My name is Angel Mollel, I was born and raised in Northern ...

Hundreds of people have reportedly been left homeless by the evacuation of local pastoral communities. One young Maasai is said to have been shot and critically injured. It is part of a ...

Ritual context, subsistence work ... Consumption of Raw-milk: A Critical Risk Factor in Disseminating Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria to Maasai People in Northern Tanzania. Unpublished data. Available ...

The young people were taking part in a reinterpretation of the “Olamayio” rites undertaken by young Maasai men to prove their skills, identify their leaders and attract romantic partners.