Dozens of Maasai youths in Kenya have taken part in the fifth edition of the “Maasai Olympics”, a sporting event promoted by conservationists as an alternative to lion killing as a rite of passage for ...

The formidable Maasai tribe have long been known as tall and fierce warriors, but they have recently also become unlikely fashion icons. A Kenyan clothing label has taken inspiration from the patterns ...

Tanzanian authorities say violent clashes on June 10 between police and ethnic Maasai people they were trying to evict from a conservation area left one officer dead and scores of Maasai shot and ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Maasai people of Kenya have enlisted the United Nations to help turn their songs, dances and stories into copyrighted assets, a model that could create new income for indigenous ...

Tanzania's government is expanding its nature preserves, but in doing so, it is displacing Maasai herders from their ancestral lands. The plan is to attract more luxury tourism — and Berlin is a major ...

Maasai delegates at the United Nations conference on Indigenous people are calling on the forum to increase pressure on the Tanzanian government to address evictions, forced displacement and thousands ...

Thousands of Maasai herders from Tanzania are at imminent risk of eviction from their ancestral lands to make way for government plans to develop the area for tourism. At least 20,000 Maasai herders, ...

AT dawn in a village in Kenya’s Maasai Mara wilderness, zebras rouse themselves and head away from the huts where they like to sleep as protection from lions. Bernard Kirokor, 21, recounts watching an ...

Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders). Around ...

Children of the Maasai tribe perform a traditional jumping dance during the Enkipaata ceremony, a Maasai male rite of passage, specifically the initiation of boys, marking the transition from ...

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Kenya's Maasai Mara national reserve in Narok county has been officially recognized in the World Book of Records as the site of the "World's greatest annual terrestrial wildlife migration". The World ...