"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These are where the local Maasai practice rites of passage and old religious beliefs that preserve this place. But as life, religions and the way people see land change in this remote corner of ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The Maasai ruled the plains from Lake Turkana to the north and Lake Manyara to the north ...

Spanning more than 1,500 square kilometers, Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve serves as one of the African continent’s crown jewels for ecotourism, with a truly staggering array of native ...

Travelers go on safari in Kenya’s Maasai Mara to experience wildlife in their natural, open habitat, that’s a given. But those who also travel for gastronomic experiences will find both in a ...

It was once a rite of passage for warriors to kill lions to prove their bravery, but now the Maasai community works to protect them. Empaps (Meshack) Sayialel, Maasai The Maasai have a long ...

More than 70,000 Indigenous Maasai people are at risk of being evicted from their ancestral grazing lands to make way for a tourism operation after a paramilitary group arrived on 7 June in the Maasai ...